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We all know how tough it's become to finance a college education and getting an athletic scholarship is harder than ever, what with the economy and, at the major college level, the out of control football and basketball arms race, forcing athletic directors to cut programs left and right.  Well, here is one scholarship I bet you never thought of: a bass fishing scholarship.  Bethel University, an NAIA member school in McKenzie Tennessee, offers bass fishing scholarships just the same way they do in all of the 19 intercollegiate sports in which the Wildcats compete.  One bass fishing scholarship was awarded in a rather unique way, to the winner of the high school fishing world finals, held at Lake Dardanelle, Russellville, Arkansas: