Scholarship Award

In 2015 Floral Park Little League created an award named after one of our long time members Sean Brady.

Each year the Floral Park Little League will sponsor a scholarship award for graduating boys and girls in Floral Park Bellerose School, John Lewis Childs School, Our Lady of Victory School and Floral Park Memorial High School.

Overview of the Floral Park Little League Scholarship Awards

Floral Park Little League is a community based educational-athletic organization that provides a high-quality youth experience, in which every participant:

• Is coached using the principles and guidelines of Little League International

• Has fun playing the game

• Feels like an important part of the team regardless of performance or ability

• Learns "life lessons" that have value beyond the playing field

• Learns the skills, tactics and strategies of the game and improves as a player

I. The Floral Park Little League Sean Brady Memorial Award

The Floral Park Little League Sean Brady Memorial Award is named in honor of Sean Brady, an active parent, coach and little league board member, who throughout his life was dedicated to the Little League principles of:

- Teamwork

- Fair Play

- Sportsmanship

- Safety

- Community spirit

- Friendship

- Love of baseball/softball

Sean not only loved baseball, but he loved little league baseball and shared his passion for the game by teaching, coaching and encouraging hundreds of children from our community.

II. Criteria for selection

One boy and one girl will be selected from the current year’s graduating classes of each of the following schools (which are all within the Floral Park Little League District 29 Boundaries): Our Lady of Victory, Floral Park Bellerose School, John Lewis Childs School and Floral Park Memorial High School.

A total of 8 recipients (4 boys and 4 girls)

The applicant must have been active members/participants in the Floral Park Little League for at least 3 years (for grade school applicants) and a total 5 years (for high school applicants).

NOTE: Sewanhaka High School is not considered within the FPLL D-29 boundary and its students are not part of the Floral Park Little League.

Recipients will be chosen by the Brady family and the Floral Park Little League Board of Directors. Recipients receive $200.00 award check.

III. Nomination

Children and parents of children can submit their child’s name for consideration by the child completing a brief statement/paragraph/essay on the following:

“What playing little league means or meant to me”

Applicants will submit the essays to the appropriate person at each school by the specified deadline. The Brady family along with the FPLL Board will anonymosly review all applicants and choose the winners. The Floral Park Little League Board of Directors reserves the right to nominate additional players/students for the following reasons:

- No applicants or few applicants in a particular school (both boys and or girls)

- Qualified applicants who may have been overlooked, not nominated or missed the deadline for a legitimate reason

IV. Award Presentation

The FPLL prefers to present these awards at the school’s designated awards night. Since the FPLL is a community organization, presenting these awards at the school’s awards assembly reinforces the spirit of the award and recognizes these individuals in front of their peers and community as being recipients of an award named in honor of great community leader, Sean Brady.

Sean's Biography

Sean Brady was born on October 26, 1966 and died on April 13, 2014 at the age of 47 from complications from Non Hodgkinsons Lymphoma . Sean was born and raised in Floral Park and decided to stay here and raise his own family here as well. As a child he played Little League for Floral Park , he was an excellent pitcher and was well known for his no hitters, also winning the sportsmanship award on several occasions. He played baseball in high school for Floral Park memorial and when he graduated he came back to Floral Park Little League and coached the major division for two years.

Sean had three children and coached each of them in little league , but stayed coaching his son Brendan for 10 years. He also served on the board of directors for Floral Park Little League for several years.

Sean was very active in the community , he was a member of the Knights of Columbus and coached Titans football as well. Sean was always on hand to help build and replace things that were needed in the Floral Park Recreation Center , they even named the shed after him. He also has his name on the wall entering the park as a dedicated volunteer.

This award was put together by other active members and friends from The Little League Board of Directors to remember and honor him for years to come. Sean's family still live in Floral Park and are always honored to present these awards to the students from the community.

Please contact FPLL at [email protected] with any additional comments or questions.

2015 Winners