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<div style="text-align:right"><strong>Contact:</strong> Katie Keating</div>
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:#000000"><strong>New Valor Achievement Award Scholarship to Support Higher Education</strong></span></div>
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<div><strong>Colorado Springs, Colo. (July 8, 2014) – </strong>Funded by the I C You Foundation, Inc., the United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) is pleased to announce that a new scholarship, The Valor Achievement Award, will be available to college-bound students who are blind and visually impaired. The Valor Achievement Award has been created by Markeith LeRoy Price, CEO and President of I C You Foundation, Inc. and USABA/Paralympic athlete.</div>
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<div>One male and one female student will be awarded $500 respectively towards their higher education. The Valor Achievement Award Scholarship’s criteria are as follows:</div>
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<li>Student must be legally blind</li>
<li>Student must be enrolled or enrolling in a 2-year or 4-year college or university, including technical school</li>
<li>Student must have a GPA of 2.5 or better</li>
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<div>Interested applicants may send the required documents to Katie Keating at the U.S. Association of Blind Athletes at <a href="mailto:kkeating@usaba.org" target="_blank">kkeating@usaba.org</a> <strong>no later than</strong> <strong>August 29, 2014</strong>. Application to include:</div>
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<li>Applicant’s name</li>
<li>Applicant’s contact information, to include phone number, email, mailing address</li>
<li>Official transcripts from most recent school year</li>
<li>Applicant’s short biography</li>
<li>An essay discussing what role sports has played in his/her life; 1-2 pages</li>
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<div>Send all questions to Ms. Keating at <a href="tel:719.866.3222" value="+17198663222" target="_blank">719.866.3222</a>.</div>
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<div>Markeith LeRoy Price, CEO and President of I C You Foundation, Inc., has been an active member of USABA since 2005 when he competed in the 2005 IBSA World Youth Championships. As a T13/F13 track and field competitor, Price has made his passion for the sport count through hard work and dedication. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Family and Consumer Science with a concentration in Fashion Merchandising from Tennessee State University in December 2012. Price also competed in the 2012 London Paralympic Games, where he finished 6<sup>th</sup> in the long jump and 8<sup>th</sup> in the 400-meter dash. He is currently training full-time at the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center preparing for the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</div>
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<div><span style="font-size:9pt"><strong><em>About United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA)</em></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:9pt"><em>Since its founding in 1976, USABA, a community-based organization of the United States Olympic Committee, has reached more than 100,000 blind individuals. The organization has emerged as more than just a world-class trainer of blind athletes, it has become a champion of the abilities of Americans who are legally blind. USABA’s mission: to enhance the lives of blind and visually impaired people by providing the opportunity for participation in sports and physical activity. For more information go to </em><a href="http://www.usaba.org/" target="_blank"><em>www.usaba.org</em></a><em> </em></span></div>
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