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North Central’s Polfus finalist for MHSAA award

EAST LANSING – North Central senior Seth Polfus is among the 120 finalists for the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s Scholar-Athlete Awards for the 2016-17 school year.

Polfus participates in cross country, basketball and baseball. He is the only Class D boys student-athlete from the U.P. selected.

Presented by Farm Bureau Insurance, the program has recognized student-athletes since the 1989-90 school year and again this winter will honor 32 individuals from MHSAA member schools who participate in at least one sport in which the MHSAA sponsors a postseason tournament.

Farm Bureau Insurance underwrites the Scholar-Athlete Awards and will present a $1,000 scholarship to each recipient. Since the beginning of the program, 704 scholarships have been awarded.

Scholarships will be presented proportionately by school classification, with 12 scholarships to be awarded to Class A student-athletes, six female and six male; eight scholarships will be awarded to Class B student-athletes, four female and four male; six scholarships will be awarded to Class C student-athletes, three female and three male; and four scholarships will be awarded to Class D student-athletes, two female and two male. In addition, two scholarships will be awarded at-large to minority recipients, regardless of school size.

Every MHSAA member high school could submit as many applications as there are scholarships available in its classification, and could have more than one finalist.

The applications were judged by a 70-member committee of school coaches, counselors, faculty members, administrators and board members from MHSAA member schools. Selection of the 32 scholarship recipients will take place in early February.

Class C and D scholarship recipients will be announced Feb. 7, Class B scholarship recipients will be announced Feb. 14 and Class A scholarship recipients will be announced Feb. 21. All announcements will be made on the MHSAA Website.

To honor the 32 Scholar-Athlete Award recipients, a ceremony will take place during halftime of the Class C Boys Basketball Final, March 25, at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing.

To be eligible for the award, students must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 (on a 4.0 scale) and previously have won a varsity letter in at least one sport in which the MHSAA sponsors a postseason tournament. Students also were asked to respond to a series of short essay questions, submit two letters of recommendation and a 500-word essay on the importance of sportsmanship in educational athletics.

Other U.P. finalists are Amber Nicole Manitowabi-Huebner, Marquette, Class A girls; Ryley Alaspa and Ryan Sanderson, Sault Ste. Marie, Class B boys;  Morgan Colling, Houghton, Class B girls;

Ashok Ravindran, Ishpeming, Class C boys; Khora Swanson, Ishpeming, Bailey Downs, Munising, and Maysa Sitar, Newberry, Class C girls, and Alexa Destrampe, Lake Linden-Hubbell, and Rhiley Hubert, Rapid River, Class D girls.

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