Oakwood Schools Foundation - Howard Sales Memorial Scholarship

Howard Sales was a coach, teacher and athletic director at Oakwood Junior High and High School from 1965 to 1995. Coach Sales came to Oakwood in 1965 as a junior high and high school teacher of social studies, health and physical education. He was head football coach from 1968 to 1986 and, with 112 wins, was the winningest of any coach in school history. He served as the athletic director from 1988 to 1995. After retiring from Oakwood, he coached football at the University of Dayton from 1995 to 2005 and returned to OHS in 2006 as an assistant football coach. In 1992, Coach Sales was elected president of the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association; in 1994 was enshrined in the Ohio High School Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio; inducted into the Sam Andrews Hall of Fame in 1998, the Oakwood Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009, and the Miami Valley Football Coaches Association in 2014. He passed on December 2, 2019 at the age of 86.

Applicants must:

• be a graduating senior from Oakwood High School,
• played at least one sport at Oakwood High School (Please make sure a list of the sports and years you have participated is included in your resume.),
• demonstrate honesty, integrity, character and kindness.

Preference will be given to students committed to play a varsity sport in college with the exception of students receiving a full-ride Division I athletic scholarship.

Financial need will be considered if all else is equal.

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