Senior Earns Drew Medford Scholarship

Gage Stubbs ’24 earned a $1,000 Drew Medford Tournament (DMMT) Scholarship over spring break. The DMMT, a three-day scholarship tournament, was established in honor of the former Paschal High School pitcher and TCU signee who was tragically killed in a car accident following his senior year of high school. 

Since its founding in 2017, the DMMT has become one of Texas’ most prestigious tournaments, drawing top-flight programs from the Fort Worth area. The 2024 event marks the DMMT’s first year as a 25-team tournament after beginning as a six-team event and later expanding to 12, 16 and 20 programs. This year, 24 games were played across six area sites from Thursday, March 7-Saturday, March 9. 

The Drew Medford Memorial Tournament sets itself apart by awarding a scholarship to a senior player from each team participating in the tournament. The DMMT has raised more than $164,000 for local baseball players in its first seven years, including a record $40,000 in 2020. Scholarship recipients are chosen by each participating team’s coach, and the player must embody the characteristics of the tournament’s namesake: drive to succeed, humility, empathy for others, and team leadership.

“One of the characteristics that the winners of this scholarship are supposed to possess is being a great teammate,” said Baseball Program Director and Head Varsity Baseball Coach Michael Settle ’99. “Gage is as good as they come and is rock solid when it comes to all intra-program relationships.”