Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), a non-profit organization
committed to character-education through youth sports, has named
three Gilroy High athletes – Nicholas Gibson, Alexis MacPhail and
Juan Velasquez – among its 50 finalists for the Triple-Impact
Competitor Scholarship Program.
GILROY – Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), a non-profit organization committed to character-education through youth sports, has named three Gilroy High athletes – Nicholas Gibson, Alexis MacPhail and Juan Velasquez – among its 50 finalists for the Triple-Impact Competitor Scholarship Program.
All finalists are high-school juniors throughout Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Marin, Sacramento, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. The top 10 students who best exemplify PCA’s model of the Triple-Impact Competitor – making oneself better, making one’s teammates better and making the game better – will receive a $2,000 college scholarship
Gibson played varsity football the past two seasons for GHS, MacPhail has been a standout varsity field hockey player and Velasquez has competed for the varsity cross country and track teams.
Deloitte sponsors the program as part of its Problem Solvers Fund, a national grant program that aligns the organization’s charitable giving with its strategic approach of leveraging intellectual capital to strengthen the nonprofit sector.
“The power of the Triple-Impact Competitor is hard to overestimate,” PCA Founder Jim Thompson said. “And with Deloitte as presenting sponsor, we are confident this program will ultimately have a national impact. I am grateful to Mark Edmunds and Deloitte for their willingness to partner with us on this, so we can encourage high school athletic programs to graduate thousands of Triple-Impact Competitors year after year into a society that very much needs them. We also are thrilled to assist these student-athletes in reaching their full potential on and off the field by helping them continue their formal education beyond high school.”
An award ceremony will be held on Sept. 19 at Stanford University, featuring Master of Ceremonies Ted Robinson — famed broadcaster of the San Francisco 49ers, Wimbledon, the Olympics and Major League Baseball — and a special presentation by Golden State Warriors Assistant Coach Keith Smart.
