Scholarship Information

Thomas R. Savoie Memorial Fund

Purpose
Thomas Savoie was a long time member and friend of the Yorktown Youth Soccer Club whose hard work and dedication to youth referees and to the soccer community warrants a forever lasting memory. In perpetual recognition of Mr. Savoie’s service to the club the Thomas R. Savoie Memorial Fund will assist the Yorktown Youth Soccer club in recruiting, mentoring, developing and assisting youth referees. Funds may be used to purchase referee uniforms and equipment for YYSC referees. In addition, each year the fund will nominate a candidate to receive The Thomas R. Savoie Award of Excellence.

Trustees:
YYSC Club President
YYSC Treasurer
YYSC Head Referee

Funding
The Yorktown Youth Soccer club will contribute $1500 each year on August 1st. Funds can be solicited from individuals and area businesses.

The funds will be held in a savings account of the bank in which the Yorktown club maintains its bank accounts. The Yorktown Youth Soccer Club is the owner of the funds.

Thomas R. Savoie Memorial Award for Excellence
The purpose of this award is to recognize the extraordinary dedication and outstanding effort of a Yorktown youth referee to meet referring and other challenges in the past year. The recipient of the Thomas R. Savoie Memorial Award for Excellence must represent to the club what Thomas Savoie represented to the club.

Thomas R. Savoie Memorial Fund
Mr. Savoie was a successful patent attorney for The Philip Morris Company, a husband and father of three children. In addition, he contributed numerous volunteer hours to the club during the playing and referee days of his children in the 1980’s. Thereafter, and for over ten years after his children moved on to college Mr. Savoie served on the club’s Board of Directors as Head Referee. In this capacity Mr. Savoie recruited club youth referees and monitored their success. Mr. Savoie was a committed student of refereeing not only as a learned advocate of understanding the Laws of the Game but as a referee who dedicated himself to becoming better referee. Mr. Savoie contributed his club referee fees to support YYSC youth referees. At the annual general meeting in 1997, Mr. Savoie was awarded an outstanding service award from the club for his outstanding efforts. Unquestionably Mr. Savoie’s dedication, contributions and service to the Yorktown Youth Soccer and to the soccer community are paralleled by few, if any.

The recipient of the Thomas R. Savoie Memorial Award for Excellence will be a youth referee of good character who has achieved a high level of personal and / or academic achievement. The recipient must be a consistent and reliable contributor to the Yorktown Club or to the community. In addition, the recipient must have demonstrated a high level of interest and motivation to better himself or herself as a soccer referee in the past year. The standards needed to win this award are considered to be high and it is expected that in some years eligible candidates may not be identified. The recipient of the award must be a USSF certified referee who played soccer for the club for at least three full seasons prior to winning the award and is at least 13 years of age.

Each year the trustees will identify eligible candidates for the award. A nomination of one candidate’s name will be submitted to the club’s Board of Directors for approval.