P ROF ESSIONAL S K ATE R S F O U NDATIO N
Officers, Board Members and Trustees PRESIDENT Patrick O'Neil VICE PRESIDENT Carol Murphy TREASURER Scott McCoy SECRETARY Gerry Lane BOARD MEMBER
Paul Wylie Carol Rossignol Tim Covington Kelley Morris Adair Jill Maier-Collins TRUSTEE
Richard Dwyer Robbie Kaine Wayne Seybold Moira North Curtis McGraw Webster
Here For Coaches By Patrick O’Neil As many of you know, the primary mission of the PS Foundation is to assist coaches and performing skaters with educational scholarship opportunities and at times when they find themselves in financial need due to illness or disability. This year, I am happy to report that the Foundation received 28 applications for the Walter and Irene Muelbronner Scholarship (WIM), 5 applications for the Don Laws Scholarship, and 1 application for the David Shulman Leadership Scholarship. This is a marked increase in the number of applications we have received in the past. Additionally, The Foundation has provided over twenty thousand dollars in assistance to coaches who were experiencing illness during the fiscal year.
Recognition opportunities for donors available
The Foundation is proud to support the coaching community and, while we look for donations from many places, we depend directly upon the generosity of the same coaching community that The Foundation seeks to support. If you or your business currently support The Foundation, THANK YOU! Your colleagues are grateful for your donation, no matter the dollar amount. If you have never made a donation to The Foundation, please consider doing so. Reaching into your local skating community and ice rinks and asking them to support our mission is another way skating coaches can contribute to The Foundation.
The Professional Skaters Foundation (PSF) was founded to expand the educational opportunities of PSA members through a 501(c)(3) non-profit, charitable foundation.
Congratulations to all who have received educational scholarships from the PS Foundation.
Skaters' Fund – Donation Levels: • Platinum • Diamond • Gold • Silver • Bronze
$10,000+ $5,000+ $1,000+ $500+ $100+
2020 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS David Shulman Leadership Scholarship The PS Foundation recently joined the Smile Amazon Program. Amazon donates 0.5% of all eligible purchases to a charity that you designate on the Smile.amazon.com website. AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support the PS Foundation every time you shop, with no additional cost to you. Simply go to smile.amazon. com from your web browser, choose the PS Foundation as your designated charity, and use your existing amazon. com account with all the same settings! We all shop on Amazon today; please consider choosing the PS Foundation as your designated charity and start shopping on smile. amazon.com! Please spread the word to family and friends!
Ashley Wyatt Don Laws Apprentice Scholarship Odetha Hill Meredith Longoria
Shawnee Smith
Walter and Irene Muehlbronner Scholarship Linda Blount Tracy Dedrick Trista DeMuth Tara Denkers Kathleen Gazich Lisa Geltz-Perri Angela Johnstad Andria Kelling Jessica Mills Kincade Amy Ladogana Joey Millet James Morgan
Karri Nachtigal Madeleine Newby-Estrella Grace Orpiano Abby Peschges Dawn Piepenbrink-McCosh Caitlin Ramsey Sara Robertson Megan Schultz Tracey Seliga-O’Brien Dana Tang Stacey Tiggard
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