Congratulations to Sidney Casillas, Tiffany Ferguson, Ryleigh Fletcher, Taylor Kirby, Jillian Merrifield, and Maddie Pischea.  These six young ladies qualified as nominees for the MHSAA Farm Bureau Scholar-Athlete Award.

For over 31 years the MHSAA and Farm Bureau Insurance have honored the best student-athletes in Michigan.  This year they will award 32 $1,000 scholarships based on achievement and leadership in athletics and activities.  In many ways, this is the most prestigious honor the MHSAA awards annually.

To qualify as a nominee student-athletes have to be a senior, had to have earned a varsity letter, maintained a cumulative 3.5 GPA, write two short-answer questions about how athletics and other activities have prepared you for life after high school, a 500-word essay on the importance of sportsmanship in educational athletics, and submit two letters of recommendation.

Congratulations to these six young ladies who had the GRIT to apply and represent Ionia High School for this honor.  You truly represent the best and and brightest the Ionia athletic program has to offer.