🏒 Scholarships
Northeast Youth Hockey Association (NYHA), in a partnership with the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Junior Knights is proud to provide limited funding to qualified young hockey players to assist with costs associated with the sport of travel hockey on both a merit based approach as well as a financial need based approach. These funds will be used to pay the organization directly for your player’s participation in travel hockey.
Who Can Apply
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Junior Knights, a USA Hockey-sanctioned team led by Director of Knights Hockey Alex Vasko, were formed in 2007 to strengthen youth hockey in northeastern Pennsylvania. The program emerged during a surge of local interest in ice hockey, fueled by the 1999 arrival of the American Hockey League (AHL) franchise in Wilkes-Barre. This exposure to professional hockey, combined with growth in youth, scholastic, and recreational sports, provided the perfect foundation for the Knights to establish a robust platform for young athletes to develop and compete.
Scholarship programmes
Over the past six years, the WBS Knights have sent 57 players to continue their playing careers at Division 1 college and universities including Big 10, Ivy League and the National Collegiate Hockey Conference and 120 players to continue their playing careers at Division 3 colleges and universities.
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We offer two types of scholarship programs:
| Need based Scholarship | Merit based Scholarship |
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This scholarship is available to low-income families. |
This scholarship is awarded to well-rounded students. |
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Applicants must demonstrate financial need by completing the attached scholarship request form. |
It is based on overall performance—not only hockey ability, but also academic achievement, leadership, extracurricular activities, and community involvement will be considered. |
Over the past six years, the WBS Knights have sent 57 players to continue their playing careers at Division 1 college and universities including Big 10, Ivy League and the National Collegiate Hockey Conference and 120 players to continue their playing careers at Division 3 colleges and universities.
