Thomas N. Zacoi Scholarship
Recent Award Winners
2019 Cameron Whipple - Cannon Mac
2020 Alyssa Juzwick - Shaler Area HS
Scholarship Criteria and Application Process:
The Intrepid Lacrosse Club and the Laxburgh Foundation are sponsoring the inaugural Thomas N. Zacoi Memorial Lacrosse Scholarship for high school women lacrosse athletes. The scholarship honors Tom Zacoi, a tireless advocate and activist for equality in women’s sports, a founding member of the Intrepid Lacrosse Club and a grass roots organizer of many middle school, high school and college lacrosse teams in Western Pennsylvania. The scholarship is up to $500 and will be awarded based upon community service. Applicants shall submit via email, their name, address, phone number, and brief lacrosse bio to include grade level and current high school. Attach a 500-1000 word discussion of their community service, sent to: zacoimemorialfund@gmail.com.
Submissions must be received by Dec 31. The discussion may include, but is not limited to:
- Why and how you are involved?
- What group or person did this benefit and why did they need your service?
- Is this an ongoing need, or a one-time need?
- What steps are you taking to ensure service to your cause continues?
- Did you develop and/or lead the effort?
- Were there others that you worked with or led?
- How many hours do you estimate that you donated?
- Did you need to fundraise for this effort?
- What were you initially successful at?
- What were some obstacles/hardships you had to overcome?
The Scholarship will be awarded during annually.
About Tomas N. Zacoi:
Tom was an accomplished author, writing instructional fly-fishing and girls lacrosse books including the Boy Scouts of America handbook for the fly-fishing merit badge and the College Recruitment Handbook for female high school athletes. Tom started and developed many middle school, high school and college girls’ lacrosse programs and was a founding and charter member of the Intrepid Lacrosse Club. Tom dedicated a large part of his life fighting for equal opportunities for young women athletes at the local, state and national level. For those of us who were blessed to know Tom, we knew him to be overly generous with his time, money and wisdom. Tom had a servant’s heart and we would like to honor that heart with an annual scholarship granted to deserving young women lacrosse players. The scholarship will be based upon service to the community including and not limited to missionary work, elder care, Girls Scouts of America participation, or other service to any specific community.
We would like to grant a scholarship in the amount of $500 annually. Each applicant will be required to submit a criteria-based application and also submit a 500 word essay of her service.
Please help us enable young women toward the pursuit of community service in memory of Tom Zacoi. In sincere appreciation,
The Thomas N. Zacoi Scholarship Fund Managers
Sarah Locke
Maggie Fronczak
