By Staff
EAST LANSING, – Eleven student-athletes at Class A member schools of the Michigan High School Athletic Association have been selected to receive scholarships through its Scholar-Athlete Award program.
Farm Bureau Insurance, in its 18th 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 24. Commemorative medallions will be given to other finalists in recognition of their accomplishments.
The Class A Scholar-Athlete Award honorees are: Kerry Brennan, Dearborn; Alessa Cekauskas, Birmingham Seaholm; Alexander Davenport, Grosse Pointe North; Michael Charles Harden, St. Johns; Jeffery David Koelzer, Grand Rapids Northview; Jessica Konal, Berkley; Seth A. Meyer, Okemos; Nicole Naidoo, Brighton; Chelsey N. Quinlan, Plymouth; Alexander M. Ralston, Fenton; and Chelsea Read, Grand Ledge.
Other Class A girls finalists for the Scholar-Athlete Award were:
Alina Gatowski, Birmingham Groves; Chelsea Selden, Canton; Annie Hakim, Clinton Township Chippewa Valley; Jennifer Pisani, Farmington Hills Mercy; Taylor Hicks, Fraser; Bianca Cilla, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central; Helana Herberg, Jackson Northwest; Kristin Kingma, Mattawan; Ankita Mohanty, Mt. Pleasant; Rachel Lebovic, North Farmington; Kimberly Rustem, Okemos; Rachel Rideout, Okemos; Joanna Halls, Rochester Adams; Emily Martin, South Lyon; Margeaux Leighton, Temperance Bedford; Erica Olson, Traverse City West; Leslie Russell, Warren Cousino; and Jennifer Hittle, White Lake Lakeland.
Other Class A boys finalists for the Scholar-Athlete Award were: Bentley Goenka, Ann Arbor Pioneer; Will Heininger, Ann Arbor Pioneer; Cullen Salada, Battle Creek Lakeview; Joseph Jakcsy, Dearborn; David Galiyas, Detroit Catholic Central; Joshua Cupp, Fenton; Matthew Fitzgibbon, Garden City; Nicholas Ballou, Grand Ledge; Neil Delaney, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central; Alistair Smith, Kalamazoo Central; John Gundry, Lansing Waverly; Daniel Martin, Livonia Churchill; LukeKnochel, Livonia Stevenson; Anthony Schiro, Okemos.