Two Weeks Remain for Amanda Cullinan Scholarship Applications

If they haven’t done so already, Huntington High School seniors who have participated in the Blue Devil athletic program have less than three weeks to apply for the new Amanda (Hertig) Cullinan Student-Athlete Resiliency Award. The $2,500 scholarship will be presented for the first time this year. It honors a Class of 1996 member who starred on the girls’ lacrosse team and who also served as the high school’s student government president. Applications must be received no later than May 15.

The Huntington alum passed away in May 2022 after a four year battle with breast cancer. She was a married mother of three living in Summerfield, North Carolina who served as a head coach of the varsity girls’ lacrosse team at Northern Guilford High School.

All senior four-year college bound student athletes are eligible to apply for the award, but you do not have to be planning to play a college sport. Click here for the application.

Applicants are asked to submit a typed 300 word essay describing how they have shown resiliency on or off the field. Completed applications can be dropped off in the athletic office or sent via email to athletic director Jim Hoops to jhoops@hufsd.edu.

Known as Amanda Hertig during her time at Huntington High School, she played on the Blue Devils’ 1994 county and state championship girls’ soccer team and on the 1996 county champion and state finalist girls’ lacrosse team.

“It was Amanda’s wish to create the Amanda Cullinan Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization to fund an annual scholarship award for an exemplary college-bound student athlete at Huntington High School,” states the award application.

The Huntington alum served as the mistress of ceremonies at Huntington High School’s 1996 commencement exercises.

“To sum up Amanda’s zest for life, while in hospice care she and her family went on vacation to Turks and Caicos,” according to an online tribute. “On day five, she said, ‘I’m leaving it all on the field’ and went down a waterslide. She never missed an opportunity to show her kids how life should be lived.”