Scholar-Athlete Awards
The following athletes will be at the Class C boys finals regardless if their team is there or not. They have been awarded a $1,000 scholarship for their athletic and scholarly achievements. The student athletes are Jenna Lange of Marlette, Jordan Alexander of Carsonville-Port Sanilac, and Joshua Campbell of Kingston. Congratulations to these three athletes.
The following from the MHSAA webiste (or click the title for the pdf):
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Jan. 29 -- The 120 finalists for the Michigan High School Athletic Association's Scholar-Athlete Award for the 2007-08 school year have been announced.
The program, which has been recognizing student-athletes since the 1989-90 school year, will honor 32 individuals from MHSAA member schools who participate in at least one sport in which the Association sponsors a post-season tournament. Farm Bureau Insurance underwrites the Scholar-Athlete Award, and will present a $1,000 scholarship to each recipient. This year, 1,965 applications were received from 477 schools.
Scholarships will be presented proportionately by school classification, with 12 scholarships to be awarded to Class A student-athletes, 6 female and 6 male; 8 scholarships will be awarded to Class B student-athletes, 4 female and 4 male; 6 scholarships will be awarded to Class C student-athletes, 3 female and 3 male; and 4 scholarships will be awarded to Class D student-athletes, 2 female and 2 male. In addition, there will also be 2 at-large honorees which are also part of the general judging process, may come from any classification, and are designated by their school at the time of entry.
Every MHSAA member high school could submit as many applications as there are scholarships available in their classification, and could have more than one finalist. Seventeen schools had two or more finalists this year. Plymouth has three finalists; while Bay City Western, Boyne City, Charlotte, Detroit Catholic Central, Detroit Country Day, Grosse Pointe South, Holland, Livonia Churchill, Onaway, Pellston, Rochester Adams, Saginaw Nouvel, St. Johns, Sturgis, Warren DeLaSalle and Zeeland West each have two finalists.
Multiple-sport participation is again the norm for this year’s applicants, and even more so for the finalists. The average sport participation rate of the finalists is 2.59, while the average of the application pool was 2.07. There are 69 three-sport participants in the finalist field. All but one of the 28 sports in which the MHSAA sponsors post-season tournaments are represented in the finalist field.
The applications were judged by a 65-member committee of school coaches, counselors, faculty members, administrators and board members from MHSAA member schools, from which the 120 finalists were selected. The selection of the 32 scholarship recipients will take place in early February. Class C and D scholarship recipients will be announced on February 12; Class B scholarship recipients will be announced on February 19; and Class A scholarship recipients will be announced on February 26. All announcements will be made on the MHSAA Web Site.
To honor the 32 Scholar-Athlete Award recipients, a ceremony will take place during halftime of the Class C Boys Basketball Finals at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing on March 15.
To be eligible for the award, students must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 (on a 4.0 scale), and have previously won a varsity letter in at least one sport in which the MHSAA sponsors a post-season tournament. Students were also asked to respond to a series of short essay questions, submit two letters of recommendation and submit a 500-word essay on the importance of sportsmanship in educational athletics.
The following from the MHSAA webiste (or click the title for the pdf):
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Jan. 29 -- The 120 finalists for the Michigan High School Athletic Association's Scholar-Athlete Award for the 2007-08 school year have been announced.
The program, which has been recognizing student-athletes since the 1989-90 school year, will honor 32 individuals from MHSAA member schools who participate in at least one sport in which the Association sponsors a post-season tournament. Farm Bureau Insurance underwrites the Scholar-Athlete Award, and will present a $1,000 scholarship to each recipient. This year, 1,965 applications were received from 477 schools.
Scholarships will be presented proportionately by school classification, with 12 scholarships to be awarded to Class A student-athletes, 6 female and 6 male; 8 scholarships will be awarded to Class B student-athletes, 4 female and 4 male; 6 scholarships will be awarded to Class C student-athletes, 3 female and 3 male; and 4 scholarships will be awarded to Class D student-athletes, 2 female and 2 male. In addition, there will also be 2 at-large honorees which are also part of the general judging process, may come from any classification, and are designated by their school at the time of entry.
Every MHSAA member high school could submit as many applications as there are scholarships available in their classification, and could have more than one finalist. Seventeen schools had two or more finalists this year. Plymouth has three finalists; while Bay City Western, Boyne City, Charlotte, Detroit Catholic Central, Detroit Country Day, Grosse Pointe South, Holland, Livonia Churchill, Onaway, Pellston, Rochester Adams, Saginaw Nouvel, St. Johns, Sturgis, Warren DeLaSalle and Zeeland West each have two finalists.
Multiple-sport participation is again the norm for this year’s applicants, and even more so for the finalists. The average sport participation rate of the finalists is 2.59, while the average of the application pool was 2.07. There are 69 three-sport participants in the finalist field. All but one of the 28 sports in which the MHSAA sponsors post-season tournaments are represented in the finalist field.
The applications were judged by a 65-member committee of school coaches, counselors, faculty members, administrators and board members from MHSAA member schools, from which the 120 finalists were selected. The selection of the 32 scholarship recipients will take place in early February. Class C and D scholarship recipients will be announced on February 12; Class B scholarship recipients will be announced on February 19; and Class A scholarship recipients will be announced on February 26. All announcements will be made on the MHSAA Web Site.
To honor the 32 Scholar-Athlete Award recipients, a ceremony will take place during halftime of the Class C Boys Basketball Finals at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing on March 15.
To be eligible for the award, students must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 (on a 4.0 scale), and have previously won a varsity letter in at least one sport in which the MHSAA sponsors a post-season tournament. Students were also asked to respond to a series of short essay questions, submit two letters of recommendation and submit a 500-word essay on the importance of sportsmanship in educational athletics.
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