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MHSAA presents SCOPE Award
PUBLISHED: March 22, 2007
To help promote the proper perspective for educational athletics, the Michigan High School Athletic Association has teamed with AT&T to create an awards program which acknowledges the efforts of schools to maintain student-centered, educationally focused sports programs.
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Four schools have been selected for the 2006-07 school year to receivethe SCOPE Award, and will be presented $2,500 checks from AT&T to beused in the continued promotion of an educational attitude for theirprograms in ceremonies at halftime of the MHSAA Class D Boys Basketball Championship game at the Breslin Center in East Lansing on March 24.
Alpena, Richland Gull Lake, Grandville Calvin Christian and Casevillewere selected as the inaugural recipients of the SCOPE Award in theirrespective classes (A-B-C-D).
All schools entering the program were required to submit an essay describing how they would use the $2,500 to further the promotion of a proper perspective for school sports; aseries of essays from an athletic administrator, student, school faculty member and community member about how the school's perspective on educational athletics affects the school and community; and anymaterials the school has used to promote its perspective on athletics.
"The biggest challenge school sports faces in maintaining its differentniche from all other levels of athletics by all other sponsors is maintaining a sane scope - realizing that these programs are here toeducate students," said John E. "Jack" Roberts, executive director of the MHSAA. "Schools which promote the proper perspective will findsuccess in all respects - including between the lines. We're proud of the schools which have been selected to receive this year's SCOPEAward."
AT&T is also the sponsor of the MHSAA's new Student Advisory Council, a16-member group which provides feedback on issues impacting educational athletics from a student's perspective, and is also involved in the operation of Association championship events and other programming.
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