Jack Lacey, Waitsfield, is a Flying Ryan Hawks adventure scholarship winner. He is in the 10th grade at Harwood Union High School and is also a part of the Mad River Glen Freeski Team. He plays baseball, golf, and ski races for his school. Among his accomplishments are getting sponsored by Salomon Freeski in 2023 and going to national championships the past two years. He is using his scholarship to help pay for the costs of competition. Lacey is among those Mad River Glen freeski team members to compete in Kirkwood, California, this month in the IFSA Junior Freeride championships.
The Flyin Ryan Adventure Scholarship Program provides monetary awards to assist adventurers of all kinds, from all around the world, in pursuing their passions. Applicants articulate a set of core values and demonstrate character, passion for their goal and financial need.
Lacey’s core values are these:
- Work hard: This can show people what someone is truly capable of.
- Live easy: Life can be full of stress. Having a chill day can be the best.
- Enjoy the outdoors: Being outside and connecting with the natural world is something to not take for granted these days. Especially when it's snowing.
- Live every day like it's the last. Having a good time and maximizing day-to-day life is important.
- Looking out for others: The people around you shape you. Be kind to them and create a community.
To date the Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation has has given out over 170 awards. Learn more and apply at www.FlyinRyanHawks.org/Adventure-Scholarship-Program/.
The Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation was formed in 2011 to extend the impact of the life of Ryan Hawks who, at the age of 25, died while competing on the freeride world ski tour. Before he died, Hawks composed his 14 Principles for Living. The Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation has focused its mission around the concept that “core values matter.”
Over the last three years, the foundation has developed a five-step program called Flyin Ryan Decisions. The program was pioneered at South Burlington High School, Vermont, where over 1,200 students have deliberately taken ownership of their lives by composing and communicating the core values which reside from within, and using their core values as a basis for increased self-respect and future decision making. The Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation is currently introducing this same program to other schools around the state.
