Garrett Mitman was awarded the Thiensville-Mequon Rotary Club's annual scholarship recipient. Garrett is a 2017 graduate of Homestead High School and was able to graduate early, after the 2nd trimester of his senior year, so that he could continue to pursue his passion of basketball and give back to a community in need on the small island of Turks & Caicos in the Caribbean. Garrett is the president and founder of a non-profit organization, Island Hoops Project, where he has raised $91,000 to renovate a basketball court for the Turks & Caicos community of Providenciales. You can learn more about Garrett’s project at islandhoopsproject.org.
Garrett has played basketball for the Homestead Highlanders for the past 4 years and was named Team Captain his senior year. He has also served as the Summer Camp Commissioner for Homestead’s Hoop Camp for grades 5-9 and has served as a referee for Slammers Basketball, a program for pre-K to grade 5.
Garrett will be attending Colgate University in upstate New York this fall. He plans to study pre-med and will be playing basketball for the Colgate Raiders.
Garrett, we thank you for your “Service Above Self!”