If you hadn’t known the name Stuart Scurria before Friday’s homecoming game at Delhi Charter School, you likely walked away from the contest with a very real sense of what the late DCS alumnus meant to not only his school, but his community as a whole.
A crowd of family, friends, former classmates, teachers, and people from many other walks of life, crowded onto a large orange and blue 14 - Scurria’s high school number - at midfield before the Gators’ matchup with the Block Bears, to remember the friend, father, husband, and son lost in July in an airplane crash.
The school held the memorial to not only read official resolutions remembering Scurria and honoring him with his name on school facilities, but to remember a friend lost and mourn the hole left in the lives of so many.
“The fact that there are so many people here shows how deep of an impact Stuart had on everyone,” Drew Lewis said during the memorial.
During the memorial DCS officials recognized Scurria, a 2009 DCS graduate, as being an original member of the school, as well as an exceptional student finishing as salutatorian of his class; an exceptional athlete, excelling in football, basketball, track-and-field, golf, and baseball; and a student of exceptional character, as a member of the National Honor Society, Student Council, and Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
DCS officials said those achievements will be forever memorialized by retiring his number 14 jersey and officially naming all areas where an official DCS sport takes place as the Stuart Scurria Sports Complex.
