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The Last Best Ride

Depot Park
Whitefish, MT 59937 US

The Last Best Ride

Donation Goal: $20,000

To all our Neighbors, Racers, and Adventure Chasers: 

 

What is the Barbara Mansfield Champion Scholar Award?

 

As a Whitefish native herself and a former recipient of community-funded education award grants, our co-founder, Jess Cerra, is intimately aware of just how powerful the activation of others can be. With the help of her high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Barbara Mansfield, and the money provided by donors, she overcame the hardships she struggled with growing up as a financially disadvantaged youth and pursued her goal of attending college.

 

In the same spirit of the generosity that afforded Jess the opportunity at post-secondary education, we have established our Barbara Mansfield Champion Scholar Award program. Originally, the program's goal was to provide 20 percent of our race proceeds and any supplemental donations that we receive to two financially qualified women pursuing post-secondary education. However, through the overwhelming support we have received from registrants and donors alike, we have provided more than $130,000 in 5 short years.

As professional competitors, we understand acutely how easy it is to retreat to the bubble of bike racing, to pull through and pass through, to take in the sights and give little back. We hope to have popped that bubble by structuring our race such that simply signing up to participate means that you play a part in improving someone else’s circumstances.

The Barbara Mansfield Champion Scholar Award recognizes that champions come in many shapes and forms, including but not limited to athletic champions, champions for equal rights, and champions of the arts or the environment. But no matter the cause, every champion has similar characteristics: courage, passion, strength, and persistence. Those qualities are not always innate. Champions can develop those characteristics as they overcome challenges and work to achieve goals.

Barbara Mansfield is a champion educator who pushed students to discover and develop their passions, skills, and academic potential throughout her career. We named this Champion Scholar award after her.

 

We thank you all for your unwavering support of our cause and efforts to give back to the community that plays such a wonderful host to the Last Best Ride.

Click the links to view our Barbara Mansfield Champion Award scholar overview and application.

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