The Valley Athletic Trainers Association Student Athletic Trainer Scholarship Fund was created to recognize and reward outstanding student athletic trainers in the Rio Grande Valley. The Valley Athletic Trainer Association awards up to 5 scholarships to outstanding student athletic trainers in high school and college.

The 5 scholarships include:

VATA Hall of Fame Memorial Scholarship

VATA Memorial Scholarship

VATA DHR Health High School Scholarship

VATA  High School Scholarship

VATA College Scholarship

Eligible students selected by the student affairs committee will receive a one-time award payable to the college or university of their choice.

The VATA Hall of Fame Memorial Scholarship was created to honor the athletic trainers that have been inducted in the VATA Hall of Fame, and have passed away. We continue to honor their memory, and carry on the legacy that they left behind.

" A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."-Jackie Robinson

VATA Memorial Scholarship

The VATA Memorial Scholarship was created to honor those athletic trainers that served in the Rio Grande Valley and have passed away. We carry their memory with us, and continue the legacy they left behind.

"The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal "- Cicero