Pheasant Heaven awards $5,000 to these two Top Scholarship winners from Hugoton. Pictured from the left are Christian Zizumbo and Grant Niehues with Johnette Johnson-PHCI Scholarship Chairperson and Adriana Alfaro-Admin. Asst. Photo courtesy of Adriana Alfaro.

Hugoton is home to Pheasant Heaven Charities and has been offering scholarships to Hugoton High School students and 10 other communities in a 52 mile radius since 2008. They have been able to give upwards of $600,000 in scholarships ONLY because of their amazing partners and the generosity of the community and communities like yours.

As many of you know, helping the community with their time, resources and monies is the very basis that Pheasant Heaven was built upon. Pheasant Heaven felt that it was time to find the students who represent the same core beliefs, values and efforts. They needed to put more emphasis on students who excel in their classrooms as well as the towns they live in. It was important that Pheasant Heaven made sure the recipients would bring back value to their communities or new community after college graduation. Reading about students who yearn to help, learn, create better, and finish what they started was at the top of the committees’ must haves. This year, all 60 applicants were highly qualified and most deserving and took their application very seriously. Pheasant Heaven was thrilled with such a great group to choose from.

Pheasant Heaven awarded four-$5,000 Top Scholarships to two students from Hugoton – Grant Niehues and Christian Zizumbo and two students from Sublette – Destiny Russom and Noah Friesen.

Eight-$1000 Honorable Mention Winners were Elisha Staggers from Moscow; Zane Welsh, Tobias Grubbs, Fernando Supelveda Lopez, Julian Delgado and Austin Hewitt from Hugoton; and from Ulysses, Jose Tarango and Samantha Scott.