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Women for WineSense Awards New Scholarships

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Left to right: Morgan Overholt, Jeff Davis &Kayla Koroush.  Photo credit: M.J. Wickham, M.J. Wickham Photography.
Left to right: Morgan Overholt, Jeff Davis & Kayla Koroush.
Photo credit: M.J. Wickham, M.J. Wickham Photography.

SONOMA, CALIFORNIA | August 5, 2015: In honor of Women for WineSense’s 25th anniversary, the Napa|Sonoma chapter (WWS) awarded three new scholarships to its Professional Members at its “Bubbles, Brix and Buzz IV” event at Ram’s Gate Winery on July 22nd.  A blue ribbon panel of past WWS chapter presidents and key members, along with current Young Professional Development Director Jenna Riggan, who spearheaded the new scholarship program, reviewed multiple applications. At the event, they announced two winners of the new Premier Cru Scholarship, Morgan Overholt and Jeff Davis ($500 each) , along with a Grand Cru Scholarship winner, Kayla Koroush  ($750).

These new scholarships, awarded directly by the WWS chapter, will supplement the four chapter scholarships previously announced totaling $10,000, which will be awarded to students this year in wine business or viticulture and oenology degree programs at Sonoma State University, Santa Rosa Junior College, Napa Valley College and U.C. Davis. “Many of our members supplement their formal education with courses and programs related to the wine industry and specific to their discipline,” explained chapter president, Christine L. Mueller. “These scholarships will help our Professional Members attain their career development goals of progressing in the industry.”

Unlike the scholarships awarded at the four affiliated schools, recipients of the new scholarships were required to be members of the chapter to be eligible. (Scholarship recipients at the four schools do not have to maintain membership to receive their awards.) A rigorous rubric was applied to each applicant’s application answers by the review panel members to determine the winners by merit. And scholarship proceeds may be applied to non-degree education programs such as WSET, Court of Sommeliers and other wine business certificate programs as well as undergraduate and graduate programs.

ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

Kayla Koroush has been in the wine industry for five years and currently serves as Marketing Associate as Schramsberg Vineyards & Davies Vineyards in Calistoga, Calif. Prior to her tenure at Schramsberg, Kayla wore a number of marketing hats at Heringer Estates Vineyards & Winery in Clarksburg, Calif. As noted by Stephen F. Heringer in his recommendation letter for her, “Kayla will be successful in all that she undertakes due to her tenacity, drive and motivation to constantly improve her person, her employer and the wine and hospitality industry she loves so thoroughly. Your investment in her educational pursuits will be well justified and will be returned exponentially to the industry throughout her career.”

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