Price receives TVA Power Play Scholarship
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A local student is being recognized and receiving a scholarship.
On Thursday, Bowling Green Municipal Utilities announced the 2024 recipient of the TVA Power Play Scholarship.
The scholarship is awarded to Bowling Green High School’s Kolbyn Price. Price is one of 40 recipients of the honor. The scholarship is $4,000.
Price is graduating with a 4.0 unweighted GPA and is a member of Beta Club, FCA, and Younglife.
Price is a two-time KHSAA 5A state champion, playing on the Bowling Green Purples football team and a four-time Academic All-State Honoree.
Price will attend Western Kentucky University, where he will be double majoring in Political Science and Legal Studies in preparation for law school. Price will also play football for the Hilltoppers.
Price is the son of the son of Chris and Jamie Matlock.
About TVA’s Power Play Scholarship Association
Power Play scholarship recipients are chosen by an eight-member selection team of educators from colleges and universities in the seven states of the Tennessee Valley and are selected based on academic achievement, standardized test scores, leadership qualities, letters of recommendation and written essays. Made up of 16 local power company managers representing the Valley region’s 153 LPCs and TVA representatives, the Power Play Scholarship Association has awarded nearly 800 scholarships totaling more than $2.9 million to children of LPC employees since its inception in 1995. Funds are raised through association membership fees, contributions from TVA and vendors and the annual Power Play Golf Tournament events. The scholarship program encourages students to excel while recognizing the strong partnerships between TVA and distributors of TVA power.
