WALTER KOSTRIC MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

The Walter Kostric Memorial Scholarship is a $500 scholarship, established to honour the memory of Walter "Vladimir" Kostric (1935-2000).

Walter was the head coach of the Woburn Collegiate Institute’s boy’s track and field teams that won the 1975 O.F.S.A.A. championships and were undefeated in Scarborough and Toronto for a period of four years from 1972 to 1975. He was also a National and Olympic coach. Coaching Olympians Bruce Simpson, Debbie Van Kiekebelt, and Richard Rock. Walter was energetic, strong willed and passionate about his athletes.

To be eligible for the Walter Kostric Memorial Scholarship candidates must:

• Be a student enrolled in High School in their graduate year.
• Applying or accepted to an accredited University or College.
• Demonstrate qualities and personal values that personify the Olympic values of excellence, leadership, respect, human development, fun, fairness, and peace.
• Have outstanding academic performance: minimum grade average of 85 %.
• Be an accomplished athlete in high school, community or provincial level or higher.
• Be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada.

A small committee, comprised of no more than five individuals, selected from Walter’s family, friends and the Phoenix Athletics Board of Directors will select the finalists for the Memorial Scholarship Award and the eventual award winner.

A cheque for $500 will be presented to the scholarship winner for that year at the Phoenix Athletics End of Season BBQ held the last weekend in August of that year.

We would like to encourage your financial support for the scholarship.

Please send all donations to the following address:

We have all been blessed by having known "Walter" or "Vlado", as he was affectionately called. Let’s keep his vision of excellence and achievement alive for future generations of student athletes.

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."

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