A crop of high school student athletes from around west-central Illinois have been recognized for their achievements on the field and in the classroom.<\/p>\n
Rotary Club of Jacksonville handed out 28 Scholar-Athlete Awards during an April 30 banquet. The award is given to students for academic, athletic and leadership excellence.<\/p>\n
The recipients “exhibit characteristics that will prepare them well for leadership in their communities, in future educational endeavors and in their chosen careers,” club President Kelly Pool said.<\/p>\n
Students were chosen based on recommendations from school administrators and coaches. Stosha (DeShasier) Coomer, a former\u00a0NCAA Division II athlete and a 1997 Scholar-Athlete Award winner from Carrollton school district, served as speaker for the banquet.<\/p>\n
Recipients of this year’s awards are:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crop of high school student athletes from around west-central Illinois have been recognized for their achievements on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4613,116,118,117,115,278],"class_list":["post-259480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-breakingnews","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}