EAST LANSING, Mich. – Jan. 20 – The 120 finalists for the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s Scholar-Athlete Awards for the 2025-26 school year, presented by Farm Bureau Insurance, have been announced.
The program, in its 37th year, 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 Association sponsors a postseason tournament.
Farm Bureau Insurance underwrites the Scholar-Athlete Awards and will present a $2,000 scholarship to each recipient. Since the beginning of the program, 991 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 awarded to Class B student-athletes, four female and four male; six scholarships awarded to Class C student-athletes, three female and three male; and four scholarships 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. This year, 95 schools have a finalist, with Birmingham Groves and Flint Powers Catholic atop the list with three apiece. Twenty-one schools have two finalists: Ann Arbor Greenhills, Bay City Central, Birch Run, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Hills Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood, Corunna, Detroit Country Day, Frankenmuth, Grand Ledge, Holland, Holland West Ottawa, Midland Dow, Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart, Negaunee, Northville, Okemos, Plymouth, Royal Oak, White Lake Lakeland and Yale.
Multiple-sport participation remains the norm among applicants. The average sport participation rate of the finalists is 3.02, up from 2.88 a year ago. There also are 82 three-plus sport participants in the finalists field, up from 75 in 2024-25, and all 31 sports in which the MHSAA sponsors postseason tournaments are represented — including field hockey and boys volleyball, which joined the MHSAA’s championship lineup this school year for the first time.
Of 426 schools which submitted applicants, 20 submitted the maximum allowed. This year, 1,438 applications were received. All applicants will be presented with certificates commemorating their achievement. Additional Scholar-Athlete Award information, including a complete list of scholarship nominees, can be found on the Scholar-Athlete Award page at https://www.mhsaa.com/about/awards/scholar-athlete-award.
The applications were judged by a 72-member committee of 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. 3, Class B scholarship recipients will be announced Feb. 10 and Class A scholarship recipients will be announced Feb. 17. All announcements will be made on the MHSAA Website.
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 and submit two letters of recommendation and a 500-word essay on the importance of sportsmanship in educational athletics.
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2025-26 Scholar-Athlete Award Finalists
GIRLS CLASS A
- Reese Beauleaux, Adrian
- Asia Shi, Ann Arbor Huron
- Lilamae Frank, Battle Creek Lakeview
- Brynn Corrion, Bay City Central
- Bella Matthews, Bay City Central
- Lydia Binelli, Berkley
- Jacey Roy, Birmingham Groves
- Julia Yoder, Birmingham Groves
- Ella Griffin, Bloomfield Hills
- Sydney Behnke, Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood
- Justine Casey, Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood
- Laurin M. Edwards, Detroit Cass Tech
- Grace Kim, Farmington Hills Mercy
- Gracelynn Olson, Fruitport
- Jade Queen, Grand Ledge
- Maggie Telgenhof, Holland
- Maggie Rothstein, Holland West Ottawa
- Mattie Thompson, Okemos
- Veda Keshavamurthy, Plymouth
- Ava Mac Donald, Rochester Adams
- Jillian Hayes, Saline
- Arabella Glass, Waterford Kettering
- Anna Linen, White Lake Lakeland
- Meredith Peterson, White Lake Lakeland
BOYS CLASS A
- Ari Blank, Birmingham Groves
- Caleb Garrett, Birmingham Seaholm
- Sajan Doshi, Bloomfield Hills
- Kazutaka Suzuki, Canton
- Ryan Dye, Detroit Catholic Central
- Carson Soltis, DeWitt
- Trevor Griffith, Flint Kearsley
- Ian Deters, Grand Ledge
- Eli Macauley, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern
- Andrew Legg, Holland
- Drew Rothstein, Holland West Ottawa
- Wesley Rogers, Mason
- Marcel Stork, Mattawan
- Eamon Murray, Midland
- Matthew Huang, Midland Dow
- Matthew McGaugh, Midland Dow
- Benjamin Hu, Northville
- Amogh Mavatoor, Northville
- Ian Morgan, Okemos
- Sami Anwar, Plymouth
- Omar Elghawy, Portage Northern
- Luke Desnoyer, Royal Oak
- Nicholas Maeso, Royal Oak
- Owen Wohlfert, Traverse City West
GIRLS CLASS B
- Sophia Hazzi, Ann Arbor Greenhills
- Sydney Fox, Birch Run
- Avery Pagel, Birch Run
- Presley Chamberlain, Cheboygan
- Madison Dennis, Durand
- Natalie Foltz, Frankenmuth
- Julia Noureddine, Grosse Ile
- Phoebe Elder, Haslett
- Brayley West, Lake Fenton
- Aubrey Tarkiewicz, Marshall
- Clare O’Donnell, Negaunee
- Liliana Saunders, Negaunee
- Lilly Thelen, Portland
- Maya Grossman, Vicksburg
- Ava Lassey, Wixom St. Catherine
- Kendall Hollon, Yale
BOYS CLASS B
- Parth Ashok, Ann Arbor Greenhills
- Cole Haist, Big Rapids
- Miles Dell, Chelsea
- Nolan Carr, Corunna
- Joel DeLorge, Corunna
- Hugh Aaron, Detroit Country Day
- Micah Zacks, Detroit Country Day
- Möbius Stubblefield, Edwardsburg
- Caleb Carignan, Flint Powers Catholic
- Bryce Gross, Flint Powers Catholic
- Logan Johnson, Flint Powers Catholic
- Caden Sommerfield, Frankenmuth
- Dylan Becksvoort, Holland Christian
- Jaxxon Thelen, Ionia
- Tucker Cole, Tecumseh
- Jackson Kohler, Yale
GIRLS CLASS C
- Anna Poppema, Bath
- Hope Miller, Blissfield
- Brynne Schulte, Elk Rapids
- Addyson Rhodes, Grandville Calvin Christian
- Molly Soper, Hanover-Horton
- Izabella Latuszek, Laingsburg
- Maya Carlson, Manistique
- Ashley Carlson, Norway
- Luella Whipkey, Oscoda
- Emma Winans, Perry
- Lillian Kwiatkowski, Rudyard
- Irelynn Pachulski, Saranac
BOYS CLASS C
- Ethan Stine, Bridgman
- Joe Gaffney, Charlevoix
- Gavin Comero, Ishpeming Westwood
- Sean Siems, Kalamazoo Hackett Catholic Prep
- Eli Smith, LeRoy Pine River
- Grason Weber, Leslie
- Sean Dammann, New Lothrop
- Logan Slimko, North Muskegon
- Drew Ruddy, Ottawa Lake Whiteford
- Luke Paxton, Pewamo-Westphalia
- Ryan Kowalczyk, Pinconning
- Amos Miller, Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy
GIRLS CLASS D
- Audrey Stone, Bessemer
- Madison Karakashian, Bloomfield Hills Academy of the Sacred Heart
- Alexa Ross, Bloomfield Hills Academy of the Sacred Heart
- Caila Fitchett, Dryden
- Lorna Wiesen, Leland
- Isabel Rookard, Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart
- Hope Woolman, Sterling Heights Parkway Christian
- Emily DelFavero, Wakefield-Marenisco
BOYS CLASS D
- Zyan Breznik, Adrian Lenawee Christian
- Ian Flanagan, Deckerville
- Brady Jungwirth, Felch North Dickinson
- David Wahl, Gaylord St Mary
- Connor Hill, Hillsdale Academy
- Noah Zeien, Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart
- Jack Nelson, Ontonagon
- Louis Kowalsky, West Bloomfield FJA
The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation of voluntary membership by more than 1,500 public and private senior high schools and junior high/middle schools which exists to develop common rules for athletic eligibility and competition. No government funds or tax dollars support the MHSAA, which was the first such association nationally to not accept membership dues or tournament entry fees from schools. Member schools which enforce these rules are permitted to participate in MHSAA tournaments, which attract more than 1.4 million spectators each year.
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