Flyin Ryan is proud to announce the addition of three new Adventure Scholarship recipients to their Adventure Scholar family!
Eli Derrick is a skicross competitor as well as a junior swim coach, mountain biker, diver and junior camp counselor at Woodward Tahoe. He has earned placement on the skicross US Junior Worlds Team and USSA Project Gold, among others. He aspires to compete in the Lausanne 2020 Youth Winter Olympics and intends to use his scholarship award to compete in the skicross NorAm races.
Stuart Whittier is a ski cross racer from Cape Elizabeth, Maine who races for Carrabassett Valley Academy at Sugarloaf Mountain and on the FIS Noram circuit. He attends Maine Coast Waldorf Highschool in Freeport, ME, where he plays ultimate frisbee and runs cross country. He will be using his award to participate in ski cross races.
Molly Kucher has been skiing since she was 3 years old and it is her life’s passion. She has been part of a big mountain ski team for three years and is putting her award toward a SASS Global Travel ski trip in Japan.
The Flyin Ryan Adventure Scholarship Program exists to provide monetary awards to assist adventurers of all kinds, from all around the world, in pursuing their passions. Applicants must come up with their own set of Core Values and demonstrate character, passion for their goal and financial need. Learn more and apply at www.FlyinRyanHawks.org/Adventure-Scholarship-Program/.
About The Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation: The Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation was formed in 2011 to extend the impact of the life of Ryan Hawks who, at the age of 25, tragically died while competing on the freeride world ski tour. Before he died, Ryan composed his 14 Principles for Living. The Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation has focused its mission around the concept that “core values matter.” Over the last three years, the Foundation has developed a five step program called Flyin Ryan Decisions. The program was pioneered at South Burlington High School, Vermont, where over 1,200 students have deliberatively taken ownership of their lives by composing and communicating the core values which reside from within, and using their core values as a basis for increased self-respect and future decision making. The Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation is currently introducing this same program to other schools around the state