Sproul twins awarded “Tipping the Scale Scholarship”

Boys & Girls Clubs
Press Release
Submitted by Andrew Schmidt
July 30, 2020

Photo (l to r): Ed Hubel of Baptist Nassau, Xanah Sproul, Xarah Sproul, Bill Gower of BGCN Foundation

Yulee High School Seniors, and twins, Xarah and Xanah Sproul have been awarded the Tipping the Scale Scholarship by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Nassau County Foundation. This award is in recognition of their hard work and successful completion of their internships with Baptist Nassau.

Boys & Girls Club members since they moved here from Chicago six years ago, both girls joined the Tipping the Scale program when they saw other teens in the program getting to go off campus and work at the hospital. They applied, interviewed, and were accepted to the program where they and other teens began internships covering a variety of professional health areas including nursing, accounting, telecommunications, radiology, health information, and physical therapy. The teens are provided with a mentor in the hospital and are paid a stipend for their work. Upon completion of the program, students are able to apply for the scholarship in their senior year.

“My favorite part about working at the hospital for the summer internship was feeling grown up. It was my first job and it was just cool to have a 9-to-5 job!” said Xarah. “The connections and bonds I was able to make at Baptist Health…helped me realize what I really wanted to do going forward in life,” added Xanah.

In addition to their hard work in this program, both young women were members of the Yulee High School Marching Band, National Honors Society, and BETA Club, as well as many other extracurricular activities. Xarah and Xanah truly exhibit the goal of Boys & Girls Clubs of Nassau to help deserving students achieve their dreams. Both of the Sprouls are headed to Saint Leo University where they intend to do their pre-med studies in Medical Humanities.

For more information on Boys & Girls Clubs of Nassau County please visit bgcnassau.org.

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Ben Martin
Ben Martin(@ben-martin)
3 years ago

The Sproul sisters probably have higher than average intelligence. They are not wearing “breathing restriction devices” that concentrate pathogens in their breathing environment and bring levels of O2 below OSHA levels. Kudos to the Sproul sisters! They probably know a lot about viruses and understand that by now COVID has most likely run it’s course and evolved to something less harmful. They might even suspect that there is an agenda to all the hysteria and it is economic in nature. They might also wonder why none of the “experts” on the TV screen are educating the public about the mutation of viruses. The plague and a lot of other diseases went away all on their own. We should all learn more about how that happens.