CHARLOTTE — Charlotte Hornets guard Coby White and his family are set to award two $10,000 scholarships to support students from the Black and Brown communities.
The scholarships honor his late father Donald L. White, and Aunts Lynell King and Valerie Davis. One male and one female recipient will be chosen.
“My dad always said the books and academics always came before basketball,” White said.
“They instilled in me at a young age that education and school were very important, so I always took that very seriously.”
Applications close April 15. Students must be a rising freshman, fully accepted into one of the following five universities: East Carolina University, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Greensboro, North Carolina Central University, and North Carolina A&T.
Channel 9’s DaShawn Brown sat down with Coby White ahead of Tuesday’s game. Hear more in the video at the top of this page.
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