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| Home | The goal of the Clarke Sinclair Memorial Archery Scholarship is to promote elite youth and collegiate archery. Clarke Sinclair Memorial Archery Scholarships for 2008College Scholarships
2008 Youth Scholarships
Archery is more than just ‘shooting bows and arrows’ and ‘winning’ tournaments. Archery, as in most things in life, is a way to learn about ourselves, and provides lessons in life – if only we are willing. Through archery, we can become more than winners and losers by how we score – we become winners and losers by how we act on and off the field, how we treat our competitors, and how we react in difficult situations. This year, with more applications than ever, the decisions were not easy to make. The outstanding applications forced the selection committee to make tough decisions. Due to the number of applications and the excellence of the essays, the selection committee sought out competitors, coaches, judges, and team members who could help provide information and insight into those who applied for Clarke’s Scholarship. Our desire is to support those who most closely resemble Clarke’s attitude, character and integrity. It is an absolute honor to award the 2008 scholarships to the College and Youth recipients. Zachary Plannick awarded top honors for being the person who exemplifies everything our son stood for – character, integrity, honor and handling adversity in the finest of manners. Zachary is someone that everyone in the archery community can be proud of. Andrea Spacht, along with her teammates has helped grow the UC Berkeley archery club from a handful of members to more than 200 within 3 years. Andrea not only promotes archery to college students at Berkeley, she promotes college to youth, encouraging them to go further in their education. Catherine Wu, one of the first UC Berkeley team members went from beginner to All-American in a very short time frame. Learning to handle the pressure of trying to excel and helping her teammates led Cat to look inside herself and learn what life truly is about. A mentor and friend to new archers and her teammates, Cat’s integrity is the finest. Lindsay Fackler, known by her teammates and coach as the ‘go to’ person on the team, helps promote archery and the Penn College Archery Club. Lindsay, always working hard for others, ensures that the team has what it needs when they need it as well as keeping up with her own education and archery. Kayla Debord, by all accounts, is not only an up and coming young archer, but holds values, integrity and character high-- just as Clarke did. Overcoming difficult competition situations, always striving to do the right thing, even when others are not, and continuing to uphold sportsmanship on and off the field earned Kayla the top youth scholarship. Paige Pearce is an ambitious young archer pushing herself to higher levels of skill, but also to sportsmanship as well. Faced with difficult situations on the field with conflicts and also award placements due to errors, Paige has learned and understood why sportsmanship is important and strives to hold herself to the highest of standards. Demi Smith, like Paige, has taken what some consider ‘the hard step’ of removing themselves from a top position due to a mathematical error on a score card. Unlike some, who considered it ‘hard’ to make the correction, Demi knew it was ‘right’ to correct the score card and didn’t wait for someone else to correct, but notified the tournament organizers of the mistake herself. Demi’s demonstration of outstanding character will keep her heading down the right path in life, whether or not she is in 1st place or 3rd at a tournament. Dacota Taylor has been involved with his JOAD program for less than a year. Striving to make ‘newcomers comfortable’ and treating everyone with respect, Dacota believes that true sportsmanship, not just the words, but the actions, is the backbone of JOAD competition and bettering ourselves. 10 year old’s Colt Van Patter and Baleigh Pomrenke are the future of archery and sportsmanship. Their understanding of, in Colt’s words, ‘A bad winner is worse than a sore loser’ and Baleigh’s goal to always treat not only her competitors, but ALL archers at a competition with respect, prove that our youth are our ambassadors to the sport of archery. Congratulations to all of the Scholarship recipients. 2007 RecipientsIn 2007, three $500 academic scholarships were awarded to collegiate athletes:
Three J.O.A.D. athletes were awarded $500 scholarships to help them attend J.O.A.D. Nationals in Chula Vista Ca:
2006 RecipientsIn 2006, A $1000 scholarship was awarded to J.O.A.D. athlete Amber Christensen. Read about her experiences Here.
In 2006, three scholarships were awarded to World University Archery Team members:
Braden and Josh provided articles and photographs of their trip to Slovakia. The 2006 World University Archery Championships were a very successful event for the scholarship recipients. Braden, Josh, and teammate, Stephen Schwade took home the Men's Compound Team gold medal. Braden teamed with Brittany to win the gold in the Compound Mixed Team round. And Braden took the individual Men's Compound gold. Read about their experiences here. One $1000 scholarship will be awarded to a member of the 2006 Jr World Archery Team. 2005 RecipientsThree scholarships of $260 each were awarded to members of the 2005 Jr. World Team that competed in Denmark;
Three scholarships of $500 each were awarded to 2005 World University Games team members:
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