Bright Futures Scholarship Program
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Oct 17, 2026
David ZereHOST
Yeah.
Nathan LucasGUEST
And Florida has the amazing opportunity called Bright Futures.
Nathan LucasGUEST
So essentially if you get a high enough GPA or good enough, um, SAT score, you can go to any Florida school for essentially free.
Nathan LucasGUEST
So going to Liberty was a s- financial sacrifice for our family, and the Lord's provided an incredible ways to make-
William MontelongoGUEST
Uh, but I'd say I would probably like to go to any college in Florida that the, uh, that the, uh, what, the-
Hayes CarlineHOST
Bright Futures?
William MontelongoGUEST
...
William MontelongoGUEST
Bright Futures accepts.
Hayes CarlineHOST
Yeah, yeah.
William MontelongoGUEST
Yeah.
Cole ManionGUEST
that yeah i'm not like shooing kids away because they got a 2-9 or 3-0 you know like it's definitely like you know conference because like then it's like okay like let's have the conversation like why is it that low if it is and stuff and not you know kind of to piggyback off of the second question you asked like where do we get a lot of our recruits and you know um we do get a majority of them from the state of florida i mean like our We had 650 wrestlers compete at the state championships in Florida alone this last year, and with only four programs now in the state of Florida, there's a lot of guys looking for homes that are really tough wrestlers from Florida.
Cole ManionGUEST
And there's just so many Florida state grants that they get for going to a Florida private institution, all this stuff, our Bright Futures, Florida Prepaid, our EASE grant.
Cole ManionGUEST
There's just so many different things that can help compound their scholarship package and we can make Kaiser relatively affordable if they get, you know, like a full Pell Grant, a high academic scholarship.
Cole ManionGUEST
And we can kind of come in with wrestling and help out and make sure that you're taken care of.
Ryan SharpGUEST
Yeah.
Ryan SharpGUEST
Funding Bright Futures.
Ryan SharpGUEST
Yeah, there you go.
Ryan SharpGUEST
Supposedly.
Shane GreeneGUEST
Um, so with my situation at the time, I've, I've...
Shane GreeneGUEST
If you're in Florida, there's, like, a, I don't remember the exact numbers, but if you have a certain GPA and SAT scores and whatnot, you get what's called Bright Futures, which pays for-
EthanHOST
Yep
Shane GreeneGUEST
... uh, your schooling.
Shane GreeneGUEST
So at UWF, I had 75% Bright Futures for a four-year school, so they only had to pay for the 25%.
Shane GreeneGUEST
When I transferred to Daytona Beach, because it was a community college, I had 100% Bright Futures, so my Bright Futures paid for that, for that school.
Shane GreeneGUEST
But, uh, after my year there, I was trying to figure out, like, "Okay, I, I wanna go to a four-year and I want it paid for.
Shane GreeneGUEST
Like, I need to get a scholarship." So that was kinda how the whole, um, you know, I don't know how much of my story you, you know, but that's kinda how me getting in front of the Yankees, uh, happened.
GraceHOST
Oh, mm-hmm
Chely CantrellGUEST
... are out there, and they are looking for their Bright Futures hours, and they are thinking about junior and senior year.
Chely CantrellGUEST
This is the time of the year that everybody, I feel, starts to lock in.
GraceHOST
Mm-hmm.
Chely CantrellGUEST
Um, and we have a new program this year.
Chely CantrellGUEST
It's our Teen Advisory and Advocacy Board.
Chely CantrellGUEST
And, uh, we are with the first cognant of students right now, and, uh, these kids will earn 100 Bright Futures hours when they complete the program.
GraceHOST
Wow.
Tom EllsworthHOST
These people saw that UC Davis was number one, Cornell was number two, and I said, "Just go to Florida.
Tom EllsworthHOST
Florida's top five vet school, and you can be Bright Futures," and one of them is a family from Florida, "and so it won't cost you anything."
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
Wow.
Tom EllsworthHOST
So I have, I have...
Thomas TylerGUEST
If you want to be a nurse or whatever else you want to be, you could start at Valencia and they're right close by us.
Thomas TylerGUEST
um get to that and don't let money be the determining factor that stops you like that moat to stop you from crossing like there are plenty of ways to find funds for school um through federal pell grants that are still available but it could be used for also technical certifications as well like some other workforce development things as well um that option is there you have In Florida, you have bright futures.
Thomas TylerGUEST
I mean, so you can at 10th grade start to prepare for the SAT, ACT if you want.
Thomas TylerGUEST
You can start doing those things then.
Gerene KeeslerGUEST
place? Absolutely.
Gerene KeeslerGUEST
So one of the things I was talking to a colleague now was, In Florida, we have this thing called Bright Futures, and it's a scholarship for students that are very high academically, and it pays for any of the Florida in-state tuition.
Danielle KellyHOST
However, I have students that do
Gerene KeeslerGUEST
really well academically, but they're not the test papers.