Financial Aid Office
Athletic Scholarships
Marian and Raymond Chelberg
Outstanding Science Athlete
Scholarship
- Value: variable — renewable
- Criteria: minimum 3.0 GPA,
demonstrated leadership
abilities and excel in at least
one varsity sport; awarded at
end of junior year; earned at
least 30 LSSU credits
- Curriculum: natural science or math
- Selected by: recommendation of the Athletic Department
Ronald "Bud" Cooper Endowment Scholarship
- Value: variable — non-renewable
- Criteria:
One award will be given to student athletes participating in each of four Division II women’s sports including softball, tennis, track and cross country. Students must have earned a minimum 2.0 GPA. Awards will be given to juniors in the spring for their senior year. If there are no eligible juniors, the award may be given to a sophomore.
- Selected by: recommendation by the Athletic Department
Jim Fallis Endowed Athletic Fund
- Value: variable — non-renewable
- Criteria: merit based; earned at least 26 LSSU credits; have been an All-American honoree the previous academic year; be an enrolled student athlete and eligible per NCAA rules covering participation in varsity sports at LSSU; minimum 2.5 GPA; due to NCAA rules, an individual who is receiving full equivalency grant-in-aid is not eligible; in the event that no student athletes meet these guidelines, the selection committee may select an individual who has excelled in his or her sport and in the classroom
- Selected by: recommendation by the Athletic Department
Katherine E. Jackson Memorial
Scholarship
- Value: variable — renewable
- Criteria: merit based; preference given to residents of
Chippewa, Luce or Mackinaw County of Michigan; member
of the LSSU hockey team; minimum 3.0 GPA; open to freshmen or transfer students pursuing a baccalaureate degree in any major
- Note: consideration will be given to candidates who have played hockey for at least one season in the Sault Amateur Hockey Association (any of their recreational or travel programs) or for a Chippewa, Luce or Mackinac County of Michigan secondary institution
- Selected by: recommendation of the LSSU hockey coach
James R. Mason Memorial Scholarship
- Value: $1,000 — non-renewable
- Criteria: merit based; must be a member of the LSSU hockey team, preference given to residents of Chippewa, Luce or Mackinac County of Michigan, consideration will be given to candidates who have played hockey for at least one season in the Sault Amateur Hockey Association or for secondary institution in the listed counties of preference, freshmen or transfer students or current students with a minimum 3.0 GPA, financial need may be considered.
- Selected by: recommendation of the LSSU hockey coach and the Director of Athletics
Dillon F. Menard Memorial Scholarship
- Value: $1,000 — non-renewable
- Criteria: merit based; member of the LSSU track & cross-country team; must be of at least sophomore status when receiving the scholarship award; minimum 3.0 GPA
- Selected by: recommendation of the LSSU track & cross-country coach and the LSSU Athletic Director
Ruth Norvell Endowment Fund
- Value: variable — non-renewable
- Criteria: merit and need based; must be a walk-on or partially-funded student athlete and have been accepted as a member of the LSSU NCAA Division I Laker ice hockey team; must maintain an academic standing equal to the NCAA requirements for participation; award may be renewed if all conditions are met following year
- Selected by: recommendation of the LSSU Hockey Coach and LSSU Athletic Director
Dr. Harry Pike Award
- Value: variable — non-renewable
- Criteria: merit based; Michigan
residents; preference given to
students with financial need
- Note: This annual scholarship will be awarded on a rotating basis, if allowable by NCAA regulations, to a sport not fully funded and not supplemented by the "Bud" Cooper Endowed Scholarship in a given year. The sports will be listed by priority to determine the rotation basis. In the event there is no eligible recipient according to the rotation list, a student from the sport next in line will be selected. The displaced sport will revert to the next year's top priority.
- Selected by: recommendation by the Athletic Department
Gil Somes Endowed Award
- Value: variable — non-renewable
- Criteria: full-time student working
as a student equipment
manager or student athletic
trainer for the LSSU Athletic
Department; minimum
cumulative 2.50 GPA;
preference given to student
with demonstrated financial
need; if there is no eligible
candidate, a student-athlete
working with the Athletic
Department may be considered
- Selected by: recommendation of the
Athletic Department
Douglas D. Weight Endowed
Scholarship
- Value: variable — non-renewable
- Criteria: need based; must have
been accepted as a member of
the LSSU Laker hockey team;
must maintain an academic
standing equal to the NCAA
requirements for participation; award may be renewed if all
conditions are met following
year
- Selected by: recommendation of the
LSSU Hockey Coach and LSSU
Athletic Director
Chris Yanni Memorial Award
- Value: variable — non-renewable
- Criteria: merit based; recipient must be one of the top-seven runners of the LSSU men\'s cross country team; made significant contributions to the success of the cross country program; minimum 2.0 GPA; be a citizen of Canada or the United States (preference will be given to those applicants from Northern Ontario or Michigan); must have run for the LSSU cross country team for at least one full season and be returning to LSSU and competing for the cross country team the following year; must be a strong advocate for athletics and the virtues of clean, healthy living
- Selected by: recommendation by the Athletic Department
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