Brown earns WIAA Scholar Athlete Award

Sheboygan Falls High School senior Nathan Brown has been selected to receive a 2010 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) Division 2 Scholar Athlete Award.

Brown was honored, along with 16 boys and 16 girls, at a WIAA Scholar Athlete Awards Ceremony Sunday, May 2, at the Westwood Conference Center in Wausau.

Every year, each WIAA-member high school in the state is invited to nominate one boy and one girl for the Scholar Athlete Award. There were 726 nominations (361 boys, 365 girls) from 386 schools for the 2010 award.

To qualify for the WIAA Scholar Athlete Award, a student must have earned at least four varsity letters, through the first half of his or her senior year, and must have a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.

This year’s nominees in four WIAA categories, includes 184 students from 96 Division 1 schools, 195 students from 101 Division 2 schools, 193 students from 103 Division 3 schools and 154 students from 86 Division 4 schools.

A total of 796 young men and women have earned the award, since the program was launched in 1984 to honor scholastic and athletic excellence.

At the awards ceremony, Brown received a medallion and certificate, along with a special plaque to be displayed in the SFHS trophy case.

Julie Raeder of Sheboygan Falls also earned a WIAA Scholar Athlete Award in Division 3. Raeder attends Oostburg High School.