Schaeffler Scholarship to Introduce Sixth Winner at Luncheon ...

DENVER?- The Willy Schaeffler Scholarship Fund (WSSF) committee will host a luncheon and introduction of the sixth WSSF disabled scholar-athlete, Jamie Stanton (Oakland Township, Mich.), at the Renaissance Room in the Mary Reed building at the University of Denver on Thursday at 12 p.m. MT.

Stanton, a Paralympic skiing hopeful and DU freshman, will be joined by prior WSSF recipients Nick Catanzarite, Robbie Shelton and Carol Oakleaf.

Named after famed DU ski coach Willy Schaeffler, the prestigious scholarship is given to a disabled competitive athlete. Set up as an endowment fund, the Willy Schaeffler Scholarship Fund?(WSSF) provides tuition, and room and board costs for a recipient in need of financial assistance, allowing him or her to attend DU for four years, plus an additional year at a university in a country where a foreign language is spoken.

Last month, an additional WSSF scholarship was inaugurated for an able-bodied student-athlete, which focuses on aiding future competitors for Denver's 21-time NCAA Champion ski team.

Stanton, whose right leg was amputated when he was six months old, competed on the Rochester Adams High School golf and ski teams, serving as captain for both teams as a junior and senior. Stanton won the Michigan Adaptive Sports Skiing State Championship in both 2011 and 2012. He also finished fourth at the 2012 Michigan High School Sports Association Skiing State Championship Qualifier, but he bypassed the State Championship in order to compete in the national Huntsman Cup in Park City, Utah, where he won both slalom and giant slalom to claim the overall championship.

Stanton maintained a 3.5 grade point average while balancing after school athletics and significant community involvement, including work with AmpuTeam, Students Giving Back and Special Opportunities for Amputee Rehabilitation (SOAR).

"Like every one of his predecessors who have received the Willy Schaeffler Scholarship for disabled athletes, Jamie Stanton exemplifies character, athletic performance and academic achievement, and not necessarily in that order," Schaeffler said.

The?Willy Schaeffler Scholarship Fund?at the University of Denver began in late 1986 as a movement to honor the late, great DU, Olympic and U.S. Ski Team coach Willy Schaeffler. The WSSF was initiated by his son, Jimmy, who received early help implementing the program from Willy himself, as well as from several former DU athletes, friends of Willy and friends of DU.

Willy, often called "America's Most Successful Ski Coach," coached the DU Pioneer Ski Team to 13 NCAA Ski Championship titles from 1951-73, an NCAA record that still stands. He was the director of skiing events for the VIII Winter Olympic Games in 1960. Schaeffler also served as Alpine Director for the 1972 U.S. Olympic Ski Team during the Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan, where his women's skiers won gold and bronze medals. Willy organized the first-ever amputee ski program, which started in 1968 at the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, as a joint effort between the Denver Children's Hospital and the U.S. Army's Fitzsimmons Medical Center for its military amputees and other patients returning from wounds suffered in the Vietnam War.

The purpose of the WSSF is twofold. First, it endeavors to assist a disabled scholar-athlete, preferably a competitive skier, in his or her efforts to study at the University of Denver and abroad. Second, it is meant to recognize and honor Willy Schaeffler's many years of profound dedication and contributions to people in the world of sport, and to carry on Willy's exemplary tradition, including a foremost dedication to academic performance.

To make a donation to the University of Denver's Willy Schaeffler Scholarship Fund, go?online to the website. Once on that site,?the donor can select the?Willy Schaeffler Scholarship Fund?from the various areas to support. During these times of tighter budgets and fewer investment funds, a donation to The Willy Schaeffler Scholarship Fund significantly supplements the endowment fund, and thus is particularly helpful for the current funding of our current WSSF recipient, Jamie Stanton. Or, the donor may also donate by sending a check to the Athletics Development Office, Mail Stop Code 3200, University of Denver Athletics and Recreation, 2201 E. Asbury Avenue, Denver, CO 80210-9714, noting Willy Schaeffler Scholarship Fund on the check, or by calling Senior Associate AD for Development, Ryan Peck, at (303) 871-2785, for more information.

Source: http://www.denverpioneers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=18600&ATCLID=205703614

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