Coach Magic Morris Scholarship

Application OPEN

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Coach Jackie and her team

Coach Magic Morris Scholarship

Application OPEN

Eligibilty
  • Must have completed at least one season as a Girls on the Run and/or Heart & Sole participant, Junior Coach or Coach in the GOTR Lehigh Valley & Pocono territory.
  • Must entering or continuing their education at an accredited 4-year college, 2-year college, community college, or technical school in the U.S. during the 2025-2026 academic school year.

 

Important Dates

Application Open:  April 1, 2025

Application Deadline:  May 15, 2025

Notifications:  Scholarship recipients will be notified by June 30, 2025

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About Jackie Morris

Jackie Morris was a Girls on the Run Champion!  She coached 10+ years, mostly in the Allentown School District, positively impacting the lives of 100+ girls.  Jackie always WENT THE EXTRA MILE.

Jackie believed in EDUCATION FIRST.  She believed that education could solve personal and world problems. Which is why she sacrificed a large portion of her life to send her children to private schools, and college.

Jackie was a ROLE MODEL.  For example, when COVID hit in 2020, she decided to turn a negative into a positive and use the lessons she taught girls in GOTR to improve herself. She set a goal to lose 40 pounds and accomplished it in 6 months by focusing on her nutrition and walking/running every day. Then to celebrate, on her 62nd birthday, she decided to face her fears of heights and publicly announcing her age by hiking up Glen Onoko to the topmost waterfall. Her first mountain hike!

Jackie passed on March 8, 2021 from Stage IV cancer with a rare sarcoma.  She is remembered mostly in our hearts, but also through the Jackie Morris Scholarship Fund and memorial trees in the Little Lehigh Parkway and Allentown Rose Gardens.

Past Scholarship Awardees

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Sponsors

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