SOVA: At-Large South Valley & VUSD Attendance Boundary Aquatics Scholarship Fund
Any school in the South Valley can be designated for donations to offset participation costs for their student athletes.
Ensuring Access
South Valley Aquatics is committed to ensuring our Visalia and South Valley student-athletes who have a desire to play water polo and swim have every opportunity to pursue their aquatic goals without regard to economic limitations outside of their control. We have developed our scholarship fund as a partnership with the community. The At-Large & Attendance Boundary Aquatics Scholarship Fund invites the investment of tax-deductible donations from individual community members, local organizations, local businesses, and large corporations.
*NOTE: AT-LARGE participation will expand to specifically identify high schools in Tulare, Hanford, Lemoore, Porterville, Kingsburg, Exeter, and Strathmore.
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Building a feeder system for high school aquatics programs
The scholarship fund is designed to allow donors to specify who receives scholarships funded with their donation. More importantly, parents, boosters and corporate supporters of particular high school programs can earmark their donations to fund elementary age, middle school age, and high school age student athletes.
EXAMPLE: A parent of an 8th grader who will be attending Mt. Whitney and plans to swim and play water polo owns a local business. In the name of the business, they make a $500.00 donation to the Scholarship Fund. That would create 6 Full Scholarships for a three-month session. Those scholarship would only go to students in the attendance boundary for attending Mt. Whitney. That creates 6 student athletes entering Mt. Whitney's Water Polo program as freshman who already have water polo experience. Even more substantial donations can be made by Alumni, Institutions and Corporations.
The idea is to increase the number of student athletes who are swimming and playing water polo for several years BEFORE they go to high school and to create a mechanism that specifically engages more experienced players entering the high school programs and increasing the competitive potential of those programs.
The example above can be extended to K-12 students living in the South Valley and students within the attendance boundary areas of VUSD Schools Golden West, Redwood, and El Diamante in addition to Mt. Whitney,
POTENTIAL DONORS - PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
SOVA Aquatics offers scholarships to qualifying student athletes who complete the submit the qualifying application.
Seasonal Sessions include Spring; Feb thru April, Summer -JO; May thru July, Fall; August thru October, and Winter; November thru January. The fee is $125.00 per month. Total session fee is $375.00 (there is an additional $5.00 portal fee).
Session Scholarships are: Partial = $95.00 / Half = $187.50 / Whole = $375.00
STUDENT ATHLETES CLICK HERE TO APPLY FOR AN AT-LARGE & ATTENDANCE BOUNDARY SCHOLARSHIP
Scholarships are based on income, number of kids in household participating in athletics, and size of household.