Nine Students Awarded ScholarshipsThrough ConocoPhillips and United Way Partnership

Nine Eddy County residents will each receive $2,500 scholarships from the United Way of Eddy County, thanks to a partnership with ConocoPhillips and a very successful Cinco De Mayo Golf Tournament.

Thanks to the generosity of participants and sponsors in the May 2 “Cinco De Mayo Scramble,” $68,000 was raised for the local nonprofit. Funding from the tournament was then split between the scholarship effort and the organization’s general program fund.

The United Way has previously offered annual scholarships, but the total amount more than tripled this year. A selection committee reviewed the applications anonymously and ranked each submission. Recipients were selected from Artesia, Loving and Carlsbad. Three recipients are “nontraditional” applicants - individuals who applied for assistance after their high school senior year.

“We’re already excited about next year,” said Kyle Marksteiner, executive director of the United Way of Eddy County. “We want to continue to see this tournament grow and, with it, our scholarship effort. Thanks again to ConocoPhillips for being so dedicated to Eddy County and to workforce development.”

The following students were selected as this year’s scholarship recipients.

• Joslynn Abernathy, Texas Tech University

• Tobias Chacon, Loving High School

• Melissa Delgado, Loving High School

• Chloe Melvin, Carlsbad High School

• Sarah Prouty, Grand Canyon University

• Jimmy Quintela, New Mexico Highlands University

• Emily Soto, Artesia High School

• Sawyer Whitehead, Artesia High School

• Xuanlin Zhang, Carlsbad High School