From left, are Jennifer Brouwer, Regan’s mother; Regan Brouwer, 2022 Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship recipient; and Elle Brouwer, Regan’s sister. Photos provided by Kosciusko County Community Foundation.

Press Release

WARSAW — Regan Brouwer of Winona Lake is the first recipient of the 2022 Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship for Kosciusko County.

Regan was selected from a competitive pool of candidates and was chosen based on her exceptional academic achievement, community involvement, character, and leadership.

Regan is the daughter of Jennifer Brouwer and the late Brad Brouwer. She is a senior at Warsaw Community High School and plans to attend the University of Notre Dame or Indiana University to study environmental science.

She takes part in many extracurricular and volunteer activities, including the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council, Hoosier Riverwatch, 4-H, student council, cross country, tennis, swimming, and sailing. Regan also works for her family’s business, Brouwer’s Carpet & Furniture, and teaches tennis at Tippecanoe Country Club.

Having lost her father to cancer when she was 12 years old, Regan has shown resilience in many aspects of her life and is dedicated to learning new things and being an active member of her community. Her teachers and mentors describe Regan as positive, empathetic, a natural leader and deeply committed to academic excellence.

The second recipient of the Lilly Scholarship for Kosciusko County will be announced later this week.

“The Scholarship Committee considered 64 stellar candidates before recommending the two finalists,” said the scholarship committee chairperson in a statement. “It was heartwarming and uplifting to see the substantial impact these young people are having in our community.”

The scholarship selection committee is made up of anonymous members from across the county.

Each Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship provides full tuition, fees, and an allocation for books and equipment for four years of full-time undergraduate study at any eligible Indiana public or private nonprofit college or university.

The selection process for the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship begins at the Kosciusko County Community Foundation, where committee members review the applications without access to student names. The criteria evaluated by the committee members include academic excellence, community service, extracurricular involvement, work experience, references, and essay response. Once the committee selects the finalists, the Community Foundation submits these applicants to Independent College of Indiana (ICI), the statewide administrator of the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program, for the final selection of recipients.

From left, are Regan Brouwer; Jennifer Brouwer; Kosciusko County Community Foundation CEO Stephanie Overbey; and Warsaw Community High School Principal Troy Akers.