YOUNGSTOWN — Alexa Senvisky recalled an event when she went for a swim a number of years in the past and emerged from the pool not solely moist, however with a plan that will change the course of her life.
“At some point I used to be swimming at my mother’s, and a good friend mentioned, ‘Why not go for being a veterinary tech, since you like animals?’” the Ursuline Excessive Faculty graduate recalled.
That second was an epiphany of kinds for Senvisky, as a result of her pursuits and doable future fields of research modified a number of occasions. For some time, Senvisky was gravitating towards finding out early childhood schooling, since she loves youngsters, then maybe inside design, earlier than the dialog within the swimming pool, she defined.
No matter space of research she settles on might be simpler financially for Senvisky, as a result of she is amongst 15 space highschool graduating seniors to be awarded a complete of $150,000 in scholarships in the course of the annual Edward J. DeBartolo Memorial Scholarship Basis luncheon Friday at Stambaugh Auditorium.
The 15 have been chosen from greater than 300 functions submitted to the muse. Standards for consideration have been college students’ grade transcripts, suggestions from college personnel, essays, group involvement, monetary want and educational achievement.
Senvisky’s subsequent aim is to enroll at Kent State College at Trumbull to be a veterinary technician, which might permit her to help with animal surgical procedures, draw blood samples and different associated duties. After three years at KSU, she hopes to take a state check to earn a veterinarian license to permit her to broaden her profession, Senvisky continued.
Senvisky, who works for Pet Lodge USA of Boardman, has been a part of her college’s Christian service class and has volunteered for an elementary and preschool, in addition to at numerous meals drives, she mentioned.
Additionally pleased with their daughter’s selfless acts are her dad and mom, Brian and Kathy Senvisky.
One other proud guardian is Laura Keeley, whose son, Dalton, is also a scholarship winner.
“I’m hoping to be a math instructor. I’ve liked math since third grade,” mentioned Keeley, a Southington Chalker Excessive grad who plans to attend KSU at Trumbull to review schooling or pc science.
The achievements in his younger life additionally add as much as a laundry listing of volunteer efforts that embody aiding with horse showings on the Geauga Horse & Pony Affiliation close to Burton, in addition to first volunteering then working for Mapleview Nation Villa, a long-term care facility in Chardon.
As well as, Keeley has left his mark on Southington Elementary Faculty’s pee wee soccer staff by protecting rating and inserting penalty markers. His penchant for volunteering additionally has been felt at Southington Christian Church, the place he has assisted with its trip Bible college, he famous.
In highschool, Keeley was a part of the Beta Membership, which deliberate a wide range of packages for veterans and others.
Denise DeBartolo York, the San Francisco 49ers’ proprietor and co-chairwoman, praised the scholars for his or her tenacity, self-discipline, dedication and arduous work.
“We consider that college students who work arduous and who’ve demonstrated the will to proceed their schooling, no matter their monetary scenario, must be afforded the chance to obtain a university schooling,” she mentioned.
Because it was established in 1997, the muse has awarded greater than $1.four million in scholarship cash, its web site states.
Scholarship winners:
Brooke Briggs, Beaver Native Excessive Faculty, Wheeling College in West Virginia,
enterprise administration
Nicholas Clementi, Warren G. Harding, Kent State College, communications
Emily Hasson, Beaver Native, College of Akron, enterprise
Julia Hum, Columbiana, Youngstown State College, nursing
Kayla Johnson, Brookfield, College of Pittsburgh, neuroscience
Dalton Keeley, Southington Chalker, YSU or KSU, schooling
Gavin Leek, West Department, KSU, engineering
Isabella Minotti, Girard Excessive Faculty, YSU, nursing
Gina Mondora, Cardinal Mooney, YSU, nursing
Johnathan Morris, Struthers, Carnegie Mellon College, linguistics
Sophia Neddy, Canfield, College of Rochester in New York, public
well being
Samantha Plocher, West Department, Mississippi State College,
poultry science
Adeline Schweers, Poland Seminary, Cleveland State College, social work
Alexa Senvisky, Ursuline, KSU, veterinary science
Elizabeth Vennetti, Cardinal Mooney, College of Pittsburgh, pre-med