East's Samantha Smith Earns Positive Coaching Alliance Triple-Impact Competitor Scholarship

Sachem East senior Samantha Smith was recently honored by winning the Positive Coaches Alliance (PCA) Triple-Impact Competitor Scholarship.

Twenty finalists in attendance on Thursday night demonstrated that they are dedicated to improving themselves, their teammates and their sports as a whole. During a function at Fordham University, where ironically Smith will play softball next year, she was one of four student-athletes chosen to receive a $1,000 college scholarship.

Winners of the scholarship promote traits of:

-Personal Mastery: Making oneself better

-Leadership: Making one's teammates better

-Honoring the Game: Making the game better

Founded as a non-profit within the Stanford University Athletic Department in 1998, Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) has the mission of "transforming youth sports so sports can transform youth."

PCA has conducted nearly 9,000 live group workshops nationwide for more than 475,000 youth and high school sports leaders, coaches and parents. Workshop attendees have helped create a positive, character-building youth sports environment for more than 3 million youth athletes.

PCA's partnership network includes more than 1,700 youth sports organizations, cities and schools. In 2010, PCA will conduct roughly 1,300 live, group workshops across the U.S., while assisting thousands of other individuals via online courses at PositiveCoach.org.