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etermination, Focus, Perseverance, Courage, Self-discipline, Leadership. The Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation, Inc., celebrates these qualities
on the football field through the Biletnikoff Award, which recognizes college football's most oustanding receiver. The Foundation also recognizes and rewards these qualities in our
community by providing finacial assistance through scholarships to deserving Leon County graduating high school achievers.
This scholarship program recognizes the students' excellence in academic and community activites. These high school seniros have succeeded in spite of
significant physical, emotional, and other challenges faced during their young-adult years. The Tallahssee Quarterback Club Foundation evaluates their academic achievements,
character, involvement in school and community projects, as well as the "nature of the challenges they have overcome."
With the awarding of the 2006-2007 scholarships, the Biletnikoff Award Scholarship program will have awarded more than 70 college scholarships during its 13-year history.
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Beginning in 1999, the larges scholarship awarded was name the Tracy Biletnikoff Scholarship, in honor of Fred Biletnikoff's deceased daughter.
In addition, through their generous contributions, Howard Eisenman, James Steiner, Ken Fish/Taylor's Building Supply, Inc., Mainline Information Systems, Ed and Meredith Fishback
L. Thomas Cox, Jr., Walter W. Manley II, Curtis Zimmerman, Bush Augspurger & Lynch, PA, Inc., Rocky Bevis, Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLP, Rogers Gunter Vaughn Insurance, and Searcy
Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley have been recognized by naming scholarships in their honor.
In February 2007, as announced by 2007 scholarship chairman Ken Wilson, the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation will honor, as scholarship finalists, the following students
who have overcome significant obstacles in their young lives and demonstrated outstanding leadership and academic
achievement: Godby High School senior Thy Hoang Bui: North Florida Christian senior Bradley Daniel Givens; Godby High School senior Gabrielle Jo'van Jackson; Godby High School
senior Kevin Edward Walther; Godby High School senior Sable Tempest White; and Godby High School senior Saige Brittney White. |
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2005
William Granger
Amina Ellison
Dianne Windham
Andrew Teaf
Michael Merriman
Amanda Moreno
Kelli Frazier
2004
Wanjing Wang
Labake Ajayi
Carmen Johnson and Emilo Walker
Jamil Jude
Brett Thomas
Joshua Highsmith
2003
Lauren Bauer
Ashley Moore
Bruce Jones
Brandon Fields
Sean Solomon
Bobby Ransom
Shontrel Redmond
Madinah English
2002
Kristen Elaine Brown
Alysia Sharea Phelts
Amelia Denise Pye
Edward Javary Smith
Joseph Michael Hyde, Jr.
Ross Howard McMillian
Mathew Robert Pitner
Kara Danielle Johnson
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2001
Tracy Maria Fischler
David Samuel Kessler
Jennifer Joann Alden
Mark Edward Owens
Diuonne Ianez Wilkins
Wade Lee Benton
Amanda Danielle Passalacqua
2000
Tashiba Robinson Bethany Rountree
Robbin Hand Julie Jordan
Erin Frick
1999
April Jue Bethany Ehlmann
Elizabeth Baranik Andrew Smith
Ann Marie Ziegler Audrey Rodgers
1998
Rebekah Orr Kelly Hill
Martha Lekwal
1997
Ryan Cedrone Cox Stacie Bono Harris
Eric Ruben Huertas Nancy Nkansah
Urvi Vora
1996
Amelia Allen Calvin Calhoun
Allison Eagen John Sheffield Kenyon
Phuong Hoang Nguyen
Kathleen Eloise Smith
1995
Sara Ann Granger Jolene Beth Pinder
Tara SueAnn Miller
Mercedines Ann Wright
Arathi Vinnyak Staci Ann Oblesby
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