The number 16 jersey of late Dandy Town defender Randy Swan is to be forever enshrined in Hornets immortality.

Team-mates, family members and friends will gather at St.John?s Field on Saturday to reflect, eulogise and retire the jersey of the late Hornets player.

Town?s Premier Division team are also poised to tackle Commercial Division counterparts Dandy Town Roots during the inaugural Randy Swan Memorial match.

Donations will be collected during the event to go in aid of the Randy Swan Scholarship Fund that will financially assist future Hornets footballers in their academic studies.

A pot luck supper will also be held in addition to the official retirement ceremony of the late Swan?s jersey.

?The fund is for academic advancement and 100 percent of the proceeds will go to the scholarship fund,? explained Gnica Brangman Albouy, newly recruited public relations officer for Western Stars Sports Club.

?Randy was the recipient of the Jerome Belboda and Che Perinchief Memorial Award. And additional funding was donated by Chevron Texaco International. Now the emphasis is to rename it the Randy Swan Scholarship Fund after all three.?

Six months prior to his untimely passing, Swan graduated from Bermuda College with a degree in business administration and was awarded a football scholarship to continue studies in the US.

Sadly, the Hornets full back never got to realise a personal dream to play football at the college level abroad.

Belboda and Perinchief previously represented Town at the youth level before their deaths, while Swan was killed in car crash last December.

The future appointment of youngsters is to be made by a scholarship selection committee, with annual scholarships to be granted to students wishing to pursue any degree or certificate programmes. Potential candidates must be between the ages of 17 and 25 in the year of application with the criteria being they must be Bermudian, have graduated from high school, are a member of Western Stars Sports Club and have demonstrated academic achievement, character and leadership abilities both in sports and within the community.

While the number of awardees could vary, the overriding theme of the Randy Swan Scholarship Fund is to provide financial support for an initial period of one year to students who are in or have just completed their last year of the Bermuda Secondary School system or Bermuda College.

Saturday will mark the beginning of what is to become an annual event.

?We are looking at staging the event the week before the start of the domestic league,? Albouy added.

In a touching gesture, Town officials donated their entire Champions Cup earnings to the family of Swan to help offset funeral costs earlier this year.

?As a club we are working to ensure that all of our members can be covered for this expense in the near future,? Albouy elaborated.

?The emphasis now is to make the scholarship fund self-sufficient and, if necessary, the club will add any required funds to the scholarship.?

Town coach Devarr Boyles said: ?We live in an era where all serious athletes try to make a name for themselves, and Randy was no different. And to us Randy was a hero and a role model.?

Western Stars president and Bermuda Football Association committee chairman Cal Blankendal added: ?The match on Saturday will be special first and foremost because Randy himself had requested it once he realised Western Stars Sports Club were going to form a Commercial League team.

?Secondly, since his untimely passing, this allows us to remember him on good terms and to fulfil one of his life-long dreams by going abroad to school.

?And even though he was unable to someone else will now be able to go abroad to school to help keep his memory alive.?