DGLC Scholarships
In 2013, the Derry Girls Lacrosse Club established a Scholarship program to help local students who participated in or assisted as a volunteer for the DGLC. To be eligible, an applicant must be a graduating senior from Pinkerton Academy and plan to pursue a postsecondary education. Scholarships are awarded to students who demonstrate outstanding scholastic, athletic and leadership skills while having participated in school sports, extra-curricular, and community service activities.
Scholarship applications are available on the DGLC website under the Documents Tab and winners are announced each May.
DGLC is able to offer these scholarships through the generosity of our DGLC members, corporate sponsors and through the volunteer efforts of our DGLC Coaches and Board of Directors.
** Derry Girls Lacrosse Club Scholarship Winners **
2023 - Mea Lally
2022 - Allison Lamphere
2022 - Lauren Sweeney
2022 - Liz Fournier
2021 - Caroline Daziel
2021 - Justine Doyle
2020 - Madison Daziel
2020 - Zoe Howe
2020 - Lauren Lisauskas
2020 - Hailey Peredna
2019 - Courtney Lamphere
2019 - Emily Wong
2018 - Meaghan Michaud
2017 - Megan Jarvis
2017 - Sarah McLaughlin
2017 - Emily Sharretts
2017 - Danielle Tompkins
2015 - Amanda Szostak
2015 - Margaret McCarthy
2014 – Margaret Mulrennan
2014 – Kennedy Daziel
2013 – Jacqueline Johnson
2013 – Madison Driscoll
Tara Robertson Scholarship
In 2007, Coach Bryon Murphy and Team created a scholarship to honor former player Tara Robertson of the Class of 2002.
. This Award is presented to a Senior and selected by the Pinkerton Academy Varsity Girls Lacrosse Coaches
. Tara Played youth Lacrosse in Derry;
. She was a starter since her freshman year and she was voted as a Tri Captain by her teammates as a Junior;
. She was an UNE National Tournament participant as a Junior;
. A fun to be around free spirit, with a contagious laugh;
. She had a tremendous sense of humor;
. She donated her time to the youth lacrosse programs in Derry.
Tara was a teammate in every sense of the word. As talented as she was (All State as a junior) she was equally unassuming and reflective of praise and was very uncomfortable in the spotlight. Within a week of teams being selected, Tara knew most everyone’s name Senior thru Freshman and would go out of her way to try and make a connection even with a first year player who had never seen the sport played. She was a fierce competitor who hated to lose and she was equally as quick to compose herself and be ready for the next challenge. It was for this fierce and intense yet fun loving passion for the game of Lacrosse that this scholarship (and alumni game were started by her former teammates). She simply “loved the game of Lacrosse.” Once you were a teammate of Tara’s you had a teammate for life! From former PA Coach Bryon Murphy - "In my 36 years of coaching, certainly one of my top 10 athletes (male or female) to have had the opportunity to work with."
** Tara Robertson Scholarship Winners **
2023 - Elise Saab
2022 - Tate Howe
2021 - Justine Doyle
2019 - Kiley Davis
2018 - Meaghan Michaud
2017 - Avery Drouin
2016 - Nola Wesche
2015 - Kristen Sobolewski
2014 - Aleah MacKay
2013 - Jackie Johnson
2012 - Clara Fenton
2011 - Vicki Kuhn
2010 - Cori Rees
2009 - Steph Sayward
2008 - Sammi Benson
2007 - Kelsey Currier
About the Derry Girls Lacrosse Club
The Derry Girls Lacrosse Club is a non-profit tax-exempt organization that was formed in 2013 and organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes as described under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The goal of the Club is to provide the youth girls residing within the geographical boundaries of the greater Derry area and surrounding eligible communities an opportunity to learn and enjoy the sport of lacrosse - one of the country’s fastest growing sports - without regard to religion, race, color, creed, origin or ability, in an atmosphere of exemplary sportsmanship and integrity.
