Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Scholarships

Thirteen Spring Branch ISD students were awarded scholarships by the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo recently. Each student scholarship is valued at $18,000 over four years for college or university tuition or other needs.

Students at Memorial, Northbrook, Spring Woods and Stratford high schools, as well as Westchester Academy for International Studies, earned Rodeo awards. In all, district seniors were awarded more than $230,000 in Rodeo scholarships.

All Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo scholarship recipients must demonstrate academic potential, citizenship and leadership, and be in financial need. Students must also attend a Texas college or university. Scholarship awards are presented this month at the annual Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Scholarship Banquet.

 Metropolitan Scholarships 

These scholarships, valued at $18,000 over four years, are awarded to students in the top quarter of their graduating class who scored 1350 or more on SATs, or 19 or higher on the ACT.

Scholarship winners include: Allison Strealy – Memorial High Lauren Iozzio – Northbrook High BaoTran Ma – Spring Woods High Maximiliano Rombado – Spring Woods High Fariha Jawed – Stratford High Alyssa-uyen Nguyen – Westchester Academy David Pham – Westchester Academy

Opportunity Scholarships 

These scholarships, valued at $18,000 over four years, are awarded to students in the top half of their graduating class who scored 1300 or more on SATs, or 18 or higher on the ACT.

These scholarship winners include: Abigail Lagunas – Spring Woods High Anjanee Munidasa – Spring Woods High Maria Palomares Carranco – Spring Woods High Samantha Boncyk – Spring Woods High Saul Lopez – Spring Woods High

Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Scholarship 

This Spring Branch ISD scholarship winner is: Michelle Deveau – Spring Woods High Since the Rodeo Show began in 1932, more than $350 million has been dedicated to Texas youth. The Rodeo has issued almost 15,000 scholarships since 1957, the program’s first year.

More than 2,000 students are current scholarship recipients. They attend more than 100 separate Texas colleges and universities. In all, about $30 million in scholarships have currently been awarded.