{"id":63673,"date":"2018-07-18T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacionrafanadal.quelinka.es\/noticia\/study-and-play-100-000-in-scholarships-to-combine-sport-and-study-in-the-usa\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:32:56","slug":"study-and-play-100-000-in-scholarships-to-combine-sport-and-study-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/www.fundacionrafanadal.org\/en\/news\/study-and-play-100-000-in-scholarships-to-combine-sport-and-study-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Study and Play: $100.000 in scholarships to combine sport and study in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n<h2 class=\"alignwide has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><strong>Study and Play: $100.000 in scholarships to combine sport and study in the USA<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fundacionrafanadal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fundacion-rafa-nadal-becas-2018-01-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8257\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 18th July, a ceremony was held in Barcelona to award the Study and Play scholarships, with I-Con Sports. This year, the Rafa Nadal Foundation has provided scholarships to the value of $102,800 to 22 young Spanish athletes who wish to combine higher education with sporting careers. They will have the opportunity to continue their studies at universities in the United States, one of the few countries in which it is possible to combine both activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the three years that the Foundation has been carrying out the project, it has awarded scholarships to around 50 young athletes from a variety of sports, under the umbrella of the \u2018Study and Play\u2019 program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award ceremony, which took place at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, saw all the beneficiaries and their families in attendance, alongside Maria Francisca Perell\u00f3, the Rafa Nadal Foundation\u2019s Director of Projects, and Marc Becker, the Director of I-Con Sports, a Spanish company dedicated to incorporating athletes to American universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cAhead of you is an experience that will mark you forever; an opportunity that few people have, and that will undoubtedly enrich you and make you grow in every sense\u201d<\/em>, Maria Francisca Perell\u00f3 told the recipients.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":53897,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63673","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Study and Play: $100.000 in scholarships to combine sport and study in the USA - Rafa Nadal Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fundacionrafanadal.org\/en\/news\/study-and-play-100-000-in-scholarships-to-combine-sport-and-study-in-the-usa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Study and Play: $100.000 in scholarships to combine sport and study in the USA - Rafa Nadal Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Study and Play: $100.000 in scholarships to combine sport and study in the USA On the 18th July, a ceremony was held in Barcelona to award the Study and Play scholarships, with I-Con Sports. 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