FOX MLB Honors National Youth of the Year at Game 2 of 2025 MLB World Series
TORONTO – FOX MLB’s Kevin Burkhardt, Alex Rodriguez, David Ortiz and Derek Jeter presented the 2025 FOX Sports World Series Scholarship to Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s 2025-2026 National Youth of the Year, Ximena, on behalf of her hometown Club in McAllen, Texas ahead of Game 2 of the 2025 MLB World Series on Saturday, October 25.
The FOX Sports World Series Scholarship recognizes the accomplishments of Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s National Youth of the Year, the teen ambassador for more than 3.5 million Boys & Girls Clubs youth across the country, and is granted to future Youth of the Year representatives of their hometown Club – honoring their legacy for years to come.
Established during the 2023 MLB World Series with the expansion of the FOX Sports Gamechanger Fund community impact initiative, the scholarship program forges a lasting connection between FOX Sports’ annual presentation of the Fall Classic and longtime nonprofit partner Boys & Girls Clubs of America to benefit its National Youth of the Year program.
FOX Sports has been a longtime supporter of Boys & Girls Clubs at the local, regional and national levels and has made the Clubs a featured beneficiary of the Gamechanger Fund since its inception in 2020 at Super Bowl LIV in Miami. Presented to Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade, the Gamechanger Fund equipped the club’s youth to explore future careers in television, digital and social media production and enabled the organization to provide needed upgrades to its four teen centers. At Super Bowl LVII in Arizona in 2023 and Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans in 2025, the Gamechanger Fund addressed local Clubs’ civilian and U.S. military-connected youth population’s life and workforce preparation needs while also granting the FOX Sports Super Bowl Scholarships to Arizona’s and Louisiana’s representatives for the Youth of the Year and Military Youth of the Year programs.
