Foundation News
2025 Golf Outing: Another great success!
We had 84 registered golfers and over 90 people at the post golf dinner, all held at Ironwood Golf Course.
2025 Scholarship Awarded to Brady Mouser
We celebrate the 2025 recipient of Tri Valley High School’s Blake Cowden Leadership Scholarship, Senior Brady Mouser
Looking Back at 2024
We are grateful for the generosity of our community, friends and family who continue to support the Blake Cowden Leadership Foundation with donations which allow us to support organizations committed to youth leadership and are making a difference in our communities.
2024 Golf Outing: Great Day with Great People!
We had 78 golfers participate and over 100 people at the dinner, all held at Ironwood Golf Course.
2024 Scholarship Awarded to Jacob Bischoff
We would like to congratulate the 2024 recipient of Tri-Valley High School’s Blake Cowden Leadership Scholarship, Senior Jacob Bischoff.
Looking Back at 2023
We are grateful for the generosity of our community, friends and family who continue to support the Blake Cowden Leadership Foundation with donations which allow us to support organizations committed to youth leadership and are making a difference in our communities.
2023 Golf Outing is a great success!
We had 75 golfers participate and over 100 people at the dinner, all held at Ironwood Golf Course. We so much appreciate the help and support of everyone who participated.
Blake Regenold: 2023 Scholarship Recipient
We would like to congratulate the 2023 recipient of Tri-Valley High School’s Blake Cowden Leadership Scholarship, Senior Blake Regenold. Blake was a two-sport athlete in football and baseball. He was a football captain All-State running back that assisted Tri-Valley in going to the State Final’s this year at the University of Illinois.
Furthering Blake’s Legacy in 2022
We are pleased to share the Blake Cowden Leadership Foundation (BCLF) is able to further Blake's legacy by continuing support to three organizations in 2022 all committed to the development of youth leadership.
Our first golf outing was a success!
The first Blake Cowden Leadership Foundation golf outing is in the books!
Scholarship Recipient: Grace Martin
We would like to congratulate the recipient of Tri- Valley High School’s Blake Cowden Leadership Scholarship awarded to Senior, Grace Martin.
Celebrating Blake’s 27th birthday with a gift to his favorite camp
In honor of Blake’s 27th birthday the Blake Cowden Leadership Foundation is making a donation in support of Diamond Arrow Christian Conference Center (Diamondarrow.org) located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Nevada City, CA.
Supporting our Local Fellowship of Christian Athletes in 2021
We are pleased to share that the Blake Cowden Leadership Foundation (BCLF) is able to further Blake’s legacy by supporting the importance of leadership and character building in our schools by awarding a $1,000 donation to our local Fellowship of Christian Athletes organization in support of their Leadership Camp.
Scholarship Recipient: Ben Haushalter
We are both pleased and honored to share that we have awarded the 2021 Tri-Valley High School Blake Cowden Leadership Scholarship to recipient senior, Ben Haushalter.
Blake Cowden’s legacy of leadership lives on through foundation, scholarship
“A non-profit 501c3 organization founded by Cowden’s parents, Jeff and Debbie, [the Blake Cowden Leadership Foundation] supports organizations committed to youth leadership development. It also established the Blake Cowden Leadership Scholarship at Tri-Valley, to be given annually to a senior athlete who best exemplifies Cowden’s leadership qualities and positively impacts peers.”
Investing in Leadership
We are pleased to share that the Blake Cowden Leadership Foundation is able to further Blake’s legacy by supporting the importance of leadership, mentoring, and character-building in our schools by partnering with Teach One to Lead One.
Supporting Young Leaders in Action (Macon County)
We are pleased to share that the Blake Cowden Leadership Foundation is able to further Blake’s legacy by supporting the importance of leadership in our High Schools by awarding a $1,000 donation to the Young Leaders in Action program of Macon County.
Scholarship Recipient: Braden Zenor
We are both pleased and honored to share that we have awarded the inaugural Tri-Valley High School Blake Cowden Leadership Scholarship to recipient senior, Braden Zenor.
“100P”: A Note on Talent
No matter how talented you are, the choices you make will determine the maximizing of your talent, or the minimizing of that talent. Remember that you are the steward of your talent...when you are given the gift of talent you are responsible for maximizing it, and you are accountable to this.
“Much Too Soon” (Blake’s Song)
One of Blake's co-workers, Kirstie Davis, wrote and recorded a song in remembrance of Blake, called "Much Too Soon (Blake's Song)." Kirstie sent the song to Jeff and Debbie with the following note: "I wrote this song with love and respect for Blake. I miss him."