Padua Franciscan High School Senior, Thomas Hamzik, has received the prestigious Philip W. Porter Scholarship awarded annually by the Cleveland Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists to the outstanding high school journalist in Northeast Ohio.
Hamzik attended Assumption Academy in Broadview Heights prior to his four years at Padua High School in Parma. He will be using the scholarship when attending Elon University in North Carolina where he will continue his training in journalism.
Thomas has demonstrated a strong commitment to journalism, primarily in the more than 300 sports stories he has written for Cleveland.com. Thomas joins a distinguished group of scholarship recipients dating back to 1964 which include well known professionals throughout the broadcast and print industries.
Thomas is pictured receiving the scholarship with his mother, Maureen Hamzik, a first grade teacher at Assumption Academy.
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