A tradition at Wickliffe High School was continued recently when Katie Sturniolo was named the winner of the annual Ray Milavec Memorial Scholarship.
The $1,000 scholarship is given in the name of Milavec, a longtime Wickliffe educator, coach, administrator and public address announcer who died in 2016. To be eligible for the scholarship, graduating seniors from Wickliffe must intend to major or minor in education, communications, English, journalism or public relations.
Sturniolo was a three-year member of the Wickliffe swim team as well as being a four-year member of the Wickliffe Swing Band and Jazz Band, a four-year volunteer mentor through the school’s Torchlight program, and a member of the National Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, Gaming Club and Learn Lead Serve.
Sturniolo also delivered the school’s morning announcements each day for the past two years and was voted as Wickliffe’s 2022 Homecoming Queen.
She plans to attend Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communciations this fall to major in animation and minor in film with a focus on narrative storytelling.
“This scholarship helps to keep alive the memory of one of the greatest educators, coaches and PA announcers Wickliffe has ever produced,” said Scott Tennant, director of the scholarship process. “Ray was one of those people who was not only good at everything he did but who also cared deeply for the people he taught, coached and served.
“From him I learned the No. 1 rule of PA announcing: The focus should always be on the athletes and never on the person behind the mic.”
