My wife and I will be attending our granddaughter's formal signing of her letter of intent to play Women's Softball for Cedarville University at the High School Multi Purpose room. Her friend and next door neighbor will also be signing to play soccer for a university that is giving her athletic scholarship money to play also.
My granddaughter is receiving 15 grand in athletic scholarship yearly tp play for this wonderful and steadily growing University where my wife's sister worked for 30 years. It is about one hour drive from our house and my daughters. This was a real answer to prayer we all were asking for..
Its a good scholarship at a smaller university and is the highest amount of money they can give to a player on the softball team, even more than the pitchers.
The coach is also a local area Pastor of a Church and he and I get along great.. She should get a great education there and between the athletic scholarship and the academic scholarships she should have less than 10 grand a year to pay for and her parents will cover that.
So its a wonderful day for us here and we are so very proud of her. She is a shy girl and loves her grandma. My wife raised them for basically six years here at our house as my daughter and sonny boy went to work. We baby sat them, taught them to read, and got them to school when they came of age to go to Kindergarten all the way through elementary school.. So we are very close to our grandkids.
I am so excited for her because she is shy and yet she is one of the highest rated catchers in our state in girls travel Team elite softball. She was recruited be several schools and D-1 schools but wanted to go to a smaller more personal college and her aunt lives very close to campus where she worked so there is familar face. Her cousin just went to school there this year also.
Exciting day...