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2017–18: Champions and Awards

“ Every game day, when I pull the Martinsville

uniform over my chest, my actions reflect on my

coach, my team and my town.”

EL I M O C K Martinsville High School

IHSAA 2017-18 Winners and Awards

The IHSAA presents 42 state championship Nor do the numbers include the hundreds of
trophies, 42 Mental Attitude Award plaques teams in 21 sports that practiced every day
(with accompanying $1,000 checks to each and played hard all season long, that may not
winner’s school) and 13 C. Eugene Cato have won a state championship but won a
Memorial Scholarships every year. An conference championship or a holiday tour-
award of a different sort is to be one of the 18 nament or a sectional crown or a game with a
student-athletes in Indiana invited to serve on cross-county rival instead.
the IHSAA’s Student Advisory Committee.
Achievement at the highest level has been
As impressive as these numbers are, they don’t evident almost every night of the week from
include the thousands of student-athletes August through June all year long.
in Indiana who maintain a high grade point
average, behave responsibly, practice good To all 160,000 student-athletes, to the
sportsmanship, are exemplary role models, hundreds of IHSAA coaches and athletic
participate in extracurricular and community administrators, to the thousands of parents
activities and represent their high schools in and the tens of thousands of fans, the IHSAA
the best possible way. salutes you. As clichéd as it may sound, all are
champions in their own special, unique way.

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