MICHAEL GOLDBERG $1,000 SCHOLARSHIP
(two available annually)
The league has distributed the Michael Goldberg Scholarship Awards for over a quarter-century in memory of Chappaqua Soccer Club player Michael Goldberg, who was just 15 when he died of leukemia. His family started the scholarship to honor his fulfilling yet brief life.
Winners
- 2024: Karter Peereboom of the Eastern Pike Soccer Club
- 2024: Brandon Castorina of the Wappinger United Soccer Club
DAN HERBST $500 SCHOLARSHIP
(two available annually)
The league distributes the Dan Herbst Scholarship Awards in memory of Dan Herbst. a longtime soccer journalist and author. Dan was also past president of the Yorktown Soccer Club, and in his first term as EHYSL President when passed away at 48, also from leukemia.
Past Winners
- 2024: Riley Burdick of New Paltz Travel Soccer
- 2024: Nicolas Giorgi of the LaGrange Soccer Club
- 2024: Garrett Peterson of the East Fishkill Soccer Club
- 2016: Laura Fajrado of the Monroe-Woodbury Soccer Club
- 2016: Brendan Smailer of the Kingston Area Soccer League