2025 Recipients
We are honored to announce this year's scholarship recipients.
2025 HEROES IN THE COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT
SIMON FISH
My name is Simon Fish, and I am a student enrolled in the FireMedic degree program at Chippewa Valley Technical College. I am 18 years old and currently serve as an Emergency Medical Technician and firefighter. I work at Bloomer Community Ambulance Service and Tilden Fire and EMS in northwest Wisconsin.
The Route 91 Scholarship has lifted a financial burden off my shoulders, and I’m deeply grateful to those who make it possible. Their support encourages young people like me to step into the first responder community, and that impact matters.
I first heard about this scholarship through family friends who were at the concert in Las Vegas the night the shooting occurred. Seeing the tragedy on the news and hearing it directly from those who were there added another piece to the puzzle of why I chose to become a first responder.
Thank you again to this community for the blessing you’ve given me, my family, and so many others.
2025 COMMUNITY AWARENESS SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT
JENNA BECKER
I am a student-athlete attending Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois), where I am pursuing a dual major in art and psychology. I chose this path because art is a tool for creativity and expression and psychology is a lens through which we can better understand and support diverse needs. I aspire to be a professional artist working in multiple disciplines (painting, illustration, graphic design). With the flexibility of applying art across multiple landscapes — education, self-expression, cause, and commercial – I can continue to make my community better.
As a native Las Vegan, I am especially grateful to have been chosen as a scholarship recipient. To me, it represents our community’s resiliency, strength, and desire to lift others up.
2025 live like bailey memorial SCHOLARSHIP
RAEGAN WELCH
Hello, my name is Raegan Welch and I am going to be a freshman at the University of Arkansas in the fall!
I will be studying communication sciences and disorders in hopes of becoming a speech pathologist in an elementary school after I graduate college . I’ve always dreamed about being able to make a lasting impact on someone, and speech pathology will help me achieve that dream.
I am so thankful and honored to have been chosen for the Live Like Bailey Memorial Scholarship and I cannot wait to honor her through my studies in the fall!
WOO PIG!!