Scholar athletes to be honored at National Football Foundation banquet Tuesday – Mississippi’s Best Community Newspaper

The Miss-Lou Chapter of the Nationwide Soccer Basis proudly publicizes this 12 months’s scholar athletes from our space excessive faculties and junior excessive/center faculties.

Scholar athletes are chosen by their head coach, with help, as wanted, from the college’s steerage counselor. Metrics embrace their educational efficiency, their achievement on the soccer area, their efficiency in different sports activities, and extra-curricular actions.

The highschool scholar athletes are as follows, at school alphabetic order:

Adams County Christian Faculty – Samuel Warren Merriett,

Cathedral Excessive Faculty – Jackson Parke Lewis,

Delta Constitution Excessive Faculty – Clay Andrew Roberson,

Ferriday Excessive Faculty – Chavo Trounet Thomas,

Natchez Excessive Faculty – Landen Kiorey Sewell,

Vidalia Excessive Faculty – Courtlyn T. Brooks.

The junior excessive/center faculty scholar athletes are as follows:

Adams County Christian Faculty – Brady Glad Sullivan,

Cathedral Center Faculty – Adam Walker Probst,

Delta Constitution Junior Excessive – Jaxon Hunter Meyers,

Ferriday Junior Excessive – Robert Taylor,

Natchez Center Faculty – Kameron Jamil Morgan,

Vidalia Junior Excessive – Caden Tate Kossum.

A complete of $10,000 in scholastic awards can be gifted to the senior scholar athletes. Often, the highest scholar athlete is awarded $3,000, second place is awarded $2,250, third place $1,750, and 4th by means of sixth obtain $1,000 every. The cash can be despatched to the school of option to the Monetary Support Division to be spent on tuition, books, charges, dormitory room, or meal tickets.

Junior excessive/center faculty scholar athletes can be acknowledged together with their coaches and can obtain a plaque from the Nationwide Soccer Basis.

The featured speaker at this 12 months’s banquet is Rick Cleveland, Mississippi born sports activities author and writer. Rick has been Mississippi Right this moment’s sports activities columnist since 2016.

Rick spent almost 33 years on the Jackson Day by day Information and Clarion Ledger and was additionally the Government Director of Mississippi Sports activities Corridor of Fame.

Rick was inducted into the Mississippi Sports activities Corridor of Fame in 2018. He has written 4 books: (1) It’s Extra Than a Sport, (2) Vaught – The Man and His Legacy, (3) Mississippi’s best Athletes, and (4) My Buddy Invoice and My Pal George.

Rick has been acknowledged 13 occasions as Mississippi’s Sports activities Author of the Yr.

We’re wanting ahead to his message to the scholar athletes.

Additionally, two prestigious Nationwide Soccer Basis awards can be offered to native, effectively deserving individuals: “The Contributions to Beginner Soccer Award” can be awarded to Ray Simpson and “The Distinguished American Award” to Ken and Sue Beesley.

The banquet can be held Tuesday, Feb. 21, on the Father David O’Connor Household Life Middle on Essential Road throughout from St Mary’s Basilica at 7 p.m. Tickets to the banquet might be bought from any native member of the Miss Lou Chapter of the Nationwide Soccer Basis, from Denny Singleterry’s – State Farm Insurance coverage Workplace on Seargent Prentiss Drive in Natchez, or by calling Freddie Sandel at (601) 442-9246.

In closing, the Miss-Lou Chapter wish to thank our enterprise sponsors, tee field sponsors, and golfers who help the Joe Fortunato–Allen Brown Annual Golf Basic, and contributors to our scholarship fund. With out your help, these scholastic awards wouldn’t be doable. Thank You.

Freddie Sandel is with the Miss Lou Chapter of the Nationwide Soccer Basis.