Play4Payne Scholarship

Payne Sigman is a 2015 graduate of Bellbrook High School in Bellbrook, Ohio. As a junior he was named to the Southwestern Buckeye League first team and Southwest All-District second team in soccer. He also served as the soccer team captain for two years. In addition to soccer Payne was the varsity football kicker and on the varsity basketball team. He was a member of the National Honor Society and was very active in Young Life. In 2014 Payne was in a serious single-car accident while on his way to church. He suffered a severe traumatic brain injury and was in a coma for 13 days. After spending 17 days in the trauma unit at Miami Valley Hospital, he was moved to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus for eight weeks of inpatient rehabilitation. At this point in his recovery, he was unable to talk, sit on his own, walk or eat. When he left Nationwide Children’s Hospital, he was speaking, walking with a walker, eating normally and on his way to a miraculous recovery. Payne graduated cum laude from Trine University with a bachelor of science degree in psychology. He then graduated from the University of Dayton earning his master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling and is employed as a mental health counselor.

Applicants must:

• be a graduating senior from Bellbrook High School,
• be accepted to a two-year, four-year, technical school or college or university,
• have no athletic code infractions, and
• be a team leader.

Football scholarship applicants should demonstrate the determination to overcome challenges while being a football player. Soccer scholarship applicants should be a defensive specialist or midfielder with a strong work ethic.


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