CHAPEL HILL—Julia Capellini (Apex) and Kenley Welborn (East Duplin) are the 2026 recipients of the Alford Family Golf Scholarships. Among lacrosse student-athletes, Kelan Lewis (Hough), Renee Rizvi (Seaforth), Maddie Sutton (Croatan), and Barrett Swinson (Topsail) have been named Tony Cullen Memorial Endowed Scholarship recipients.
 
Capellini’s high school golf achievements included an individual Southwest Wake Athletic Conference (4A) championship in the fall of 2023, when she tallied the league’s best season-long scoring average. In 2024, Capellini placed 12^th in the NCHSAA 4A state meet. Welborn helped the Panthers to a fifth-place finish in this spring’s 4A state meet. Capellini and Welborn have achieved 3.5+ unweighted grade point averages (GPAs) in the Future Ready Core course of study and will continue their academic and athletic pursuits – buoyed by a one-time, $1,000 Alford Family Scholarship – at Western Carolina (Capellini) and University of Mount Olive (Welborn).
 
Each Cullen Memorial Endowed Scholarship recipient carries a cumulative 3.75+ unweighted GPA and has helped his/her high school team to this spring’s state quarterfinals. Each student-athlete will receive a one-time $2,500 grant-in-aid supporting their forthcoming higher education pursuits. Lewis will continue his academic and athletic pursuits at Randolph-Macon College, while Rizvi will study and compete at Ursinus College. Sutton will matriculate as a Christopher Newport University student-athlete, while Swinson is bound for the classrooms and fields at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
 
The Alford Family Golf Scholarships will be presented at the NCHSAA Annual Celebration on June 10 in Greensboro. Cullen Memorial Endowed Scholarship recipients will be honored later today at the Bull City All-Star Games (bearing Cullen’s name) in Durham.