NMHS Senior Wins NJSIAA Scholar-Athlete Award

The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association honored 335 high school athletes and awarded $120,000 in college scholarships at the organization’s 18th Annual Scholar-Athletes Luncheon on Sunday, May 15.

Meredith McCann, a graduating senior, was selected as the scholar athlete for New Milford High School.

Since the program’s inception in 1993, the NJSIAA has honored more than 5,700 high school athletes and presented more than $1 million in scholarships.

“I think this annual awards program is everyone’s favorite event on the NJSIAA calendar,” said NJSIAA Executive Director Steve Timko. “It epitomizes our organization’s core mission, which is to provide education-based interscholastic athletics which support academic achievement, good citizenship and fair and equitable opportunities for students.

“The scholar-athletes we recognize at this luncheon are among the highest-achieving, most athletically-talented high school students in New Jersey,” Timko said. “They are a credit to their schools, their families and their communities, and the NJSIAA is proud to honor them.”

Officials at each NJSIAA member high school have the opportunity to select one senior student as their scholar-athlete of the year.

The scholarships, donated by NJSIAA corporate sponsors and other organizations supportive of high school sports in New Jersey, are awarded by random drawings.

All the scholar-athletes’ names are entered in the drawings for all scholarships for which they are eligible. While some scholarships are only available to students attending schools in specific counties or participating in specific sports, most are offered statewide to students in all sports. There is a limit of one scholarship per student athlete.