Montreal, September 10, 2025 – Basketball girls will be highlighted as part of the new Quebec basketball scholarship program at the Aleo Foundation. As of this fall, five scholarships of $ 2,000 will be given to players embodying leadership in their team and in their basketball community.
Initiated by Basketball Québec, this scholarship program aims to encourage student-athletes evolving in a collegiate team in division 1 or academic and demonstrating the qualities of leader with their teammates, but also in their immediate environment.
“Our goal is to encourage these young women to pursue their path of leader and become, by the same fact, ambassadors of our sport. We want to lend them a hand so that their passion for sport continues for several years, even beyond the game, as official, trains or managers, after their sports career, “described Max Zuyderhoff-Craig, president of Basketball Québec.
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Bourse Robert Comeau
As part of the program Give the next Another basketball scholarship was created this year from the Aleo Foundation. The Comeau family becomes a donor of the Robert Comeau scholarship, in honor of the Patriarch, an emblematic figure of basketball in Quebec.
This scholarship will be given each year to a student hope in basketball, combining the great sporting talent and leadership in the heart of its team. The first Robert Comeau scholarship will be handed over as part of a significant basketball event in the coming months.
Robert Comeau is the co -founder of the Quebec Basketball Federation and was the chief coach of the Quebec Gold medalist teams from 1971 and 1975 at the Canada Games. His vision of basketball in Quebec was ahead of his time. In addition to having been technical director and managing director of Basketball Québec, he took the microphone of analyst at the Olympic Games and became the voice of the NBA on television notably creating his famous sentence “from the city center!” To evoke three -point shots. “M. Basketball “was a central pillar in the development of his sport in Quebec.
“These new Quebec Basketball Purses and the Comeau family are perfectly aligned with the values of the Aleo Foundation. Our goal is to propel the athlete beyond sport so that they and they become actors of change in their circles directly with leadership encouragement. We often talk about the leaders of tomorrow to enrich our society, this is an example of what we can do together to encourage them, “concluded Patricia Demers, director general of the Aléo Foundation.
About Basketball Quebec
Basketball Quebec is the organization that governs basketball discipline in Quebec. It has been incorporated since 1970 as a non -profit organization and is directed by a board of directors made up of volunteers elected during the annual general meeting. The Federation has the technical development of members to heart, which is why it invests a lot of efforts in the training of coach and athletes. Basketball Quebec is more than 60,000 members around the province who share “the passion for basketball”.
About the Aleo Foundation
The Aleo Foundation’s mission is to maximize the full potential of the greatest number of students of excellence of all horizons, in order to generate a significant and lasting impact. Created in 1985, it granted more than $ 25 million in the scholarships to more than 5,000 students from all over Quebec. In addition to these scholarships, the essential part of services deployed for life to all recipients during and after their sports and academic journey. In order to support these support services, the Aleo research chair is now a vector of scientific results available for the entire sports community here.
The fundraising campaign Impact generations The aim of raising six million dollars in three years to get closer to our great vision: that students of excellence are enriching society by their current and future leadership both thanks to their exceptional contributions and by the inspiring examples they and they embody.
To support Impact generations
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Annie Dubé
Director of communications and marketing
Aleo Foundation
438-884-6626
annie.dube@fondationaleo.ca
