Page 38 - 2014 IHSAA Annual Report

SECTION SEV EN Recognition

Jim Morris, President of Pacers Sports and Entertainment, presents the Class 4A Mental Attitude Award to Trey Lyles of
Tech High School (Indianapolis). The Indiana Pacers and Indiana Fever are presenting sponsors of the IHSAA Boys and Girls
Basketball Tournaments.

Introducing the 2013-14 Mental Attitude Thanks to the generosity and support of its corporate
Award Winners partners, the IHSAA also presents a $1000 schol-
arship to the school of each mental attitude award
The picture at the top of this page of Jim Morris, winner. In turn, the school presents the scholarship
President of Indiana Pacers Sports and Entertain- to the student of its choice during its awards cere-
ment and Trey Lyles of Arsenal Tech High School, mony every spring.
the mental attitude award winner in class 4A
basketball, is representative of a special event that While the demonstration of good citizenship is one
occurs 42 times every school year. of the criteria that award winners are expected to
meet, the good citizenship of the IHSAA’s corporate
At the end of every IHSAA tournament, a mental partners also deserves special recognition. Since
attitude award is given to a senior student-athlete the inception of the mental attitude award/school
who has excelled in the field of play and in the scholarship program over $840,000 in scholarship
classroom during his/her four years of high school. award money has been presented to high schools
This presentation is one of the highlights of every throughout the state and passed on to hundreds of
state championship in every sport and is highly young Hoosier scholars.
anticipated by the thousands who attend these
events in person as well as by the tens of thousands The on-going support of Indiana’s finest corporate
who watch on television or the Internet. citizens makes this program one of the most remark-
able of its kind—not only in this state, but nationwide.

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