Edwardsburg senior Adam Kozinski has been named a MHSAA-Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award winner.

Kozinski joins Michael Bian, Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood; Morgan Colling, Houghton; Jasmine Harper, Clare; Sasha Hartje, Detroit Country Day; Brayden Huddleston, Benzonia Benzie Central; Tait Morrissey, Big Rapids; Kim Anh Nguyen, Wyoming Kelloggsville; and Emma Nowak, Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard as Class B honorees.

Kozinski has played three years of varsity soccer and basketball, and this spring he will play his third season of varsity golf.

He has also played tennis for the Eddies.

Kozinski has been an All-Wolverine Conference selection in basketball and tennis, along with earning MHSAA Academic All-State as an individual in basketball and soccer.

The Edwardsburg golf team has also earned academic all-state.

“Having an opportunity to play varsity sports since my freshman year, I have experienced a variety of ways senior and junior teammates treat underclassmen,” Kozinski said in his essay. “Throughout the years, I have observed seniors that are very positive and uplifting to underclassmen, but then some other senior teammates are negative … I decided when I was a senior, I would try to be the most positive and encouraging teammate on the team.”

Kozinski is the secretary of his National Honor Society chapter and as a committee chairperson for Students Against Destructive Decisions. He assisted in NHS fundraising of more than $30,000 for “Operation Christmas” and represented his school at a Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership conference.

Kozinski has also been involved in his committee as a volunteered at a local food pantry and churches and serves as Sunday morning head chef at University of Notre Dame’s Corby Hall, where he prepares meals for priests.

Kozinski will attend Central Michigan University as a preferred walk-on on the Chippewas’ basketball team and study business.

Students applying for the Scholar-Athlete Award must carry at least a 3.5 (on a 4.0 scale) grade-point average and have previously won a letter in a varsity sport in which the Michigan High School Athletic Association sponsors a postseason tournament. Other requirements for the applicants were to show active participation in other school and community activities and produce an essay on the importance of sportsmanship in educational athletics.

Each of the scholarship recipients will be honored at halftime ceremonies of the Class C Boys Basketball Final game March 25 at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing. Commemorative medallions will be given to the finalists in recognition of their accomplishments.