David Sardella Incentive Track Scholarship

For freshman track and field athletes with no other athletic aid. Award is a one-time $1,000. Requires 12 credit hours, athletic potential.

Full description:
The following criteria must be met:

1. The recipient shall be a full-time student accepted to Eastern Illinois University. The student recipient must carry a minimum of 12 credit hours.
2. The recipient shall be academically and athletically eligible.
3. The recipient shall be an entering freshman who does not receive any other athletic scholarship and participates in track and field.
4. The scholarship shall be given to a student as an incentive to achieve success, and preference shall be given to a student who demonstrates the greatest potential for success in track and field.
5. The recipient shall receive $1,000. Once the endowment corpus has earned sufficient funding, additional scholarships, in multiples of $1,000, may be awarded, and more than one student may receive this award.
6. Financial need shall be a consideration at the discretion of the Selection Committee. In the case of a tie with two students equally meeting the criteria, the scholarship shall be awarded to the student with the most demonstrated financial need.
7. The recipient(s) may receive the scholarship only once.

Award announced in the spring and awarded half for the following Fall semester and the other half in the following Spring semester.