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February 19, 2008
Sport Manitoba Awards Princess Royal Pan Am Scholarships to Miskimmin and Sparling
Winnipeg – Junior National Fencing Team member Adrien Sparling and multi-sport athlete Caley Miskimmin have been selected by Sport Manitoba to receive 2008 Princess Royal Pan Am Scholarships.
The Princess Royal Pan Am Scholarship Endowment Fund provides two annual scholarships of $3000 each to a male and female high performance athlete enrolled in a post secondary institution in Manitoba. Selection is based on an athlete's sport and academic standing.
Sparling who competes in Men’s Sabre helped Canada to a 9th place finish at the 2007 World Junior Championships in Turkey where he also placed 36th in individual competition. He also had an 8th place finish at the 2007 Senior Nationals. A former under-17 National Champion, Sparling was also a silver medalist at the 2003 Canada Winter Games.
Sparling graduated with honours from College Louis-Riel last year with the highest cumulative score for the school in the IB diploma program and is presently enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Manitoba.
Athletics Manitoba’s Outstanding Female Sprinter in 2007, Miskimmin was a silver medalist in the 4x200 relay at the Western Canada Summer Games and placed 6th in the 60 metres at the CIS Championships. She was also a member of the University of Manitoba Bison Women’s Soccer Team, a member of Team Canada at the World Bandy Championships and a member of the National Ringette League Manitoba Jets.
Miskimmin is currently working towards her degree in Human Ecology through the Family Social Sciences Department at the U of M.
The Princess Royal Pan Am Scholarship was established as a legacy of the 1999 Pan American Games to provide financial support for Manitoba's high performance athletes while commemorating the Manitoba visit of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal in 1999.
More information about the scholarship is available at www.sportmanitoba.ca/scholarships.php
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For more information, contact:
Barry Moroz
Sport Manitoba Communications
925-5903
