Nazareth Academy Senior Receives Chick Evans Scholarship

Submitted by Nazareth Academy.

La Grange Park, IL - Nazareth Academy is pleased to announce that Cassandra Marquez, a senior from Berwyn, has earned the Chick Evans Caddie Scholarship.

The Evans Scholarship is a full tuition and housing college scholarship for golf caddies that is renewable for up to four years.

Recipients must display a strong caddie record, excellent grades and outstanding character. Cassie plans to use the scholarship to attend college of the University of Colorado in Boulder.

“One of my goals with college was to go someplace completely new. The Chick Evans Scholarship will allow me to fulfill that dream and gives my mom such peace of mind, knowing it’s all paid for,” says Cassie, who admits that both she and her mom cried when they got the news.

Cassie has been a caddie at Glen Oak Country Club for the past three years, completing over 150 loops. As a Daniel Murphy Scholar, she also enrolled in a special caddie program at Elmhurst College organized by Western Golf Association and the Evans Scholars Foundation.

“I am so grateful for the opportunity,” says Cassie. “And now to realize I’m a member of the Evans Family, I think I’m still in a little shock.”

To receive the award, Cassie had to fill out a written application and then answer questions in a press-conference style interview with dozens of people. The scholarship will be formally presented during the Senior Awards Assembly in May 2016.

The Evans Scholars Foundation offers this award to approximately 200 scholars each year, granting tuition and housing at the nation’s finest universities. Since 1930, more than 10,000 outstanding students have been awarded Evans Scholarships. Most attend one of the fourteen universities where the Evans Scholars Foundation owns and operates a Scholarship House. At those houses, students live and work together cooperatively.

Nazareth Academy, a Catholic, coeducational, college preparatory high school serving families from 55 communities and over 100 grade schools in Chicago and the western suburbs, established in 1900 and sponsored by the Congregation of St. Joseph, values scholarship, service, spirit, and unity.