Ringette Canada Awards Scholarships
Ottawa, Ontario – July 8, 2014 – Ringette Canada today announced the recipients of the 16th annual Agnes Jacks Scholarship Awards and the 14th annual Cara Brown Ringette Scholarship Awards. Receiving Agnes Jacks Scholarships are Olivia Parker (North Bay, ON), Hanna Stokes (Edmonton, AB), Danika Romaniw (St. Andrews, MB), Chelsey Izzy (Delta, BC) and Siobhan Stewart (London, ON). Receiving Cara Brown Ringette Scholarships are Abby Richardson (Guelph, ON) and Nathalie Poirier (Dieppe, NB).
Agnes Jacks, who sadly passed away on April 1, 2005, was the widow of Sam Jacks, who invented the sport of ringette back in 1963 in North Bay, Ontario. While the sport lost Mr. Jacks’ guiding hand through his untimely passing in 1975, the ringette community continued to benefit greatly from Agnes’ dedicated and enthusiastic promotion of the sport, and the ringette community appropriately laid claim to Mrs. Jacks as their very own goodwill ambassador. The Agnes Jacks Scholarship Award is presented to ringette players, coaches and/or officials who have demonstrated a strong academic performance and a commitment to the sport of ringette. Recipients receive a $1,000 scholarship towards post-secondary education and also receive a scholarship award certificate recognizing their achievements.
Cara Brown played competitive ringette in Sudbury and Calgary and participated in 17 Canadian ringette championships, as well as serving as team captain at the World ringette championship in 1990, 1992 and 1994. The Cara Brown Ringette Scholarship was originally formed to recognize Cara’s involvement in ringette and is awarded to a registered ringette player who is actively playing ringette at the elite level, who is entering a Canadian university on a full-time basis for the first time, who combines academic excellence and a minimum of a B average with a strong commitment to the sport of ringette. Recipients receive a $1000 scholarship towards post-secondary education and also receive a scholarship award certificate recognizing their achievements.