Taylor Cowlishaw & Lennard Benniefield - 2023 Winners
The Sparks Family and Connie & Ricky Sparks Memorial Scholarship Foundation are happy and honored to announce the 2023 Hendersonville High School Scholarship recipients. The four year $20,000 winner is Taylor Cowlishaw who will be going to Appalachian State University in the fall. The two year $5,000 winner is Lennard Benniefield who will be going to Blue Ridge Community College.
Two of the previous two-year recipients are continuing their education by transferring to four year Universities. We are happy to announce the Sparks Foundation will be able to continue to support them in their education goals by also awarding them with $5,000 per year.
This is the 16th year presenting the Connie & Ricky Sparks Memorial Scholarship which totals $295,000 awarded to truly outstanding deserving HHS graduates.
The Sparks and McCleerey families have established the Connie & Ricky Sparks Scholarship Foundation organized as a 501(c)(3) exempt non-profit.
The Connie & Ricky Sparks Memorial Scholarship was created after the tragic loss of their beloved Mother, Connie Sparks and their cherished brother, Ricky to honor and celebrate their lives.
To help celebrate the HHS Class of 2023, we were fortunate to have one of the previous scholarship recipients help present: Kianna Benniefield - 2022 to her brother.
We are exited to announce that our 2019 Winner, Sidney Brown, graduated from Bethune-Cookman University and is now a Marketing Intern with Team Penske at NASCAR. Congratulations, Sidney!
