Don Budge Tennis Grand
Slam Grant/Scholarship Application Procedure:
Application form is to be filled out
completely and submitted with a one or two-page essay, clearly hand
written by the student on one or two 8 ½ x 11 sheets of white paper. The
applicant should submit the same narrative typed on a
CD ROM disk, which should be submitted with the written matter.
Not-for-profit/developmental schools may aid their client(s) in preparing the
application form and submit the narrative typed in text format on a CD ROM disk
without the need to submit a handwritten copy .
The essay theme for students is
"How Tennis Has Helped Shaped My
Life."
The essay theme for not-for-profit/developmentally
challenged client(s) is "How Tennis Has Helped Shaped My Life."
The essay should range between 750 and
1,500 words and must include the following:
Why the student needs a
grant/scholarship.
Why the student wants a
grant/scholarship.
How the student would use the
grant/scholarship.
The applicant must use the essay theme
designated by the grant/scholarship committee and must send the application form
with all required material. The applicant must include the following information
in the essay as part of the narrative, not necessarily in the order listed
below:
Describe your personal goals in tennis.
How has tennis added meaning in your
life?
What do you plan to do with tennis in
college or later in life?
Describe one or two incidents in your
life in which you had to overcome adversity.
Describe one or two incidents in which
you overcame challenges during a tennis match.
Describe what sportsmanship means to
you and how you express it.
Explain how you have handled or how you
would handle a situation when your opponent or partner cheats and what is your
preferred way to deal with unfair line calls.
The following questions should be answered by youth applicants, but may be skipped by developmentally challenged students:
Do you have a model tennis player or
players?
Who is your favorite professional male
player and why?
Who is your favorite professional
female player and why?
If you picked a historic player as a
model, also include one or two current world-ranked players in your description.
The application, with essay, must be
postmarked or delivered by Aug 30 of the year of application. The Don Budge
Award will be distributed after the committee reviews the applications and
selects the candidate(s). The committee reserves the right not to make an award
in a given school year. Since the date for the end of a school year for each
school district may vary, the committee considers high school graduation as the end of the
school year.
Send Application
matter to:
Don Budge Grand Slam Tennis Scholarship Committee
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