EAST LANSING – The Michigan High School Athletic Association has selected 14 students from Class A schools to receive college scholarships through its Scholar-Athlete Award program.

Farm Bureau Insurance, in its 21st year of sponsoring the award, will give a $1,000 college scholarship to 32 individuals who represent their member school in at least one sport in which the Association sponsors a post-season tournament.  The first 30 scholarships are awarded proportionately by school classification and the number of student-athletes involved in those classes; and there are two at-large honorees, which can come from any classification.

Each of the scholarship recipients will be honored at halftime ceremonies of the Class C Boys Basketball final game at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing on March 27. Commemorative medallions will be given to other finalists in recognition of their accomplishments.

The Class A Scholar-Athlete Award honorees are: Meredith Leigh Aja, Traverse City Central; Ariel Dempsey, Jenison; Nathaniel Ellsworth, Saginaw Heritage; Kelly Hahn, Plymouth; Rikki Jarvis, Oxford; Christopher Luoma, Okemos; Jordan Macocha, Oxford; Calley Murphy, Birmingham Seaholm; Katherine Pavelich, Flint Kearsley; Erin Elizabeth Riley, Battle Creek Lakeview; Jonathan Michael Roberts, Grosse Pointe South; Steven Saliga, Romeo; Alex Van Tiem, Detroit U-D Jesuit; and Matthew VanZytveld, Grand Haven.

Other Class A girls finalists for the Scholar-Athlete Award were:  Lauren Lynn Anderson, Grand Rapids Christian; Lisa Marie Bender, Birmingham Seaholm; Jenna Birch, Howell; Dana Briggs, Muskegon Mona Shores; Stephanie Cuniberti, Macomb Dakota; Kimberly Dinh, Midland Dow; Lisa A. Galasso, Lake Orion; Haley Hildebrandt, Ionia; Brianna Kovan, Okemos; Nicole Krajewski, Battle Creek Lakeview; Ainsley McCallister, Ann Arbor Huron; Emily McKay, Utica Ford; Shannon Niznik, Livonia Franklin; Katherine Steen, Grosse Pointe South; Anna VanEgmond, Warren Regina; Carolyn Vlach, Traverse City West; and Alycen Wiacek, Rochester.

Other Class A boys finalists for the Scholar-Athlete Award were:  Joseph Roland Adamson, Battle Creek Lakeview; Quaid Anderson, East Kentwood; Michael Atchoo, Troy; Alex Beckwith, Midland Dow; Adam Bedell, Livonia Churchill; Joel Betts, Grand Rapids Christian; Trevor Black, Swartz Creek; Shane Brotherton, Flushing; Phillip Bunge, Midland Dow; Benjamin D. Chodos, Hartland; Joshua D. Corteville, Lowell; Mitchell Kilbourn, Owosso; Nathan Kalinowski, Garden City; Nicholas Lewin, Walled Lake Western; Robert Montgomery, Grosse Pointe South; David S. Moore, Holland; and Aaron E Mulholland, Davison.