Performance Instruction and Training Award First Ever Scholarships

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Performance Instruction and Training (PIT) based in Mooresville, North Carolina has awarded four full scholarships to students in four different North Carolina counties including Iredell, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg and Cleveland. 2011 marks the first year that the institution has offered monetary assistance to incoming students.


PIT offers students a curriculum rich in leadership and team building skills as well as a training course for individuals interested in a career in the motorsports industry as an over-the-wall pit crew athlete. In addition to learning pit stop choreography and each of the six positions on a pit crew, students become proficient in race day preparation, equipment maintenance and selection, and pit road rules and regulations. In June, PIT began its 83rd Pit Crew University session which included their first scholarship recipient Allen Tucker from Mt. Pleasant High School.


“While we are proud to have trained students from 48 states and four foreign countries, PIT is committed to increasing our regional presence in the community,” said General Manager Bob Plott. “We want to give something back to the many successful athletes and athletic programs that have excelled for years in Iredell and neighboring counties in which we live and do business in.”


Scholarship recipients applied within their high schools and were chosen by coaches at the school. Tucker served as a high school athlete on his school’s football team as did fellow scholarship winners Ethan Winkler from Burns High School and Connor Osborne from Mooresville High School. The fourth scholarship recipient Robert Cook was a Lacrosse player at Mallard Creek High School.


Cook and Winkler will be a part of the 85th Pit Crew University session beginning in September. While, Osborne has yet to decided which class he will be a part of. Since the program began in 2001 PIT has registered 681 students, of those graduates 60 percent have gone on to become full-time pit crew members on NASCAR teams throughout the NASCAR Camping World Truck, Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series’. Thus far in 2011 of the 56 races that have been run across all three of NASCAR’s elite series a pit crew university graduate has been standing in victory lane with the winning team 50 times or 89 percent.


The four scholarships awarded this year are the first in an effort to grow the program which intends on awarding five to 10 scholarships in 2012. For more information about the Performance Instruction and Training facility please refer to the website www.visitpit.com.

 

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