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Unique Sports Scholarships
by Gina LaGuardia
Think you can only score a scholarship by being a star quarterback or MVP of your high school's baseball team? Think again..
Hey Turkey: Pin Down Some C-notes!
Aside from St. John's University (NY) and Fairfield University (CT), you'll have to travel way out of town to lace up your bowling shoes. Bowling grants are offered at Cumberland College (KY), Lindsey Wilson College (KY),Thomas College (GA), Saginaw Valley State University (MI), and Pillsbury Baptist Bible College (MN). (Only Vincennes University [IL] sets up the pins and the cash for female bowlers!)
En-garde For Education!
Take a stab at landing a fencing scholarship nearby: They're offered at
Fairleigh Dickinson University (Teaneck-Hackensack campus, NJ), Rutgers State University of New Jersey, and St. John's University (NY).
It's All Downhill From Here...
...Not if you're caught in a blizzard of college cash! Check out these schools for downhill skiing scholarships: Green Mountain College (VT), University of Colorado at Boulder (CO), University of Vermont (VT), University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA), etc.
No Bouncing Tuition Checks Here!
Earn cash for those bouncing balls of table-tennis - in Puerto Rican style! Top table-tennis players can school for less at the University of Puerto Rico's Cayey University College, the Inter American University of Puerto Rico - San German campus, and University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras.
Pump Up Those Grades
Weight-lifters can flex their academic muscles at Coppin State College (MD), University of the Sacred Heart (PR), and University of Puerto Rico at Ponce (PR), among others.
Sail Away To Scholarship-Isle
Those dollars can blow in the wind for all you care, as long as you score a sailing scholarship, right? They're offered at Georgetown University (Washington D.C.), Stanford University (CA), University of Southern California, and Rollins College (FL).
Squash The Savings
If you're a female squashette, you may have to 'squash' that idea (pardon the puns) - only one school offers squash scholarships to girls: Thank heavens for Johns Hopkins University (MD)! The guys have more luck - they can vie for a star spot on the squash teams nearby at SUNY Stony Brook or Fordham University.