For the 10th consecutive year, the Positive Athlete organization has named their regional award winners for the northwest Georgia region, and Gilmer High School swimmer Evan May was selected.
Former Forest Park High School, University of Georgia and Pittsburgh Steelers star, Hines Ward, and local businessman Scott Pederson created Positive Athlete as a movement for more positivity in youth sports.
The organization is based in Georgia and seeks to promote the benefits of positivity to young athletes around the country through awards, scholarships and special opportunities. Positive Athlete Georgia has awarded regional winners of Positive Athlete awards around the state for the past 10 years, in which over $350,000 in scholarships have been awarded.
In addition to excellence on the field, each nominated Positive Athlete was required to show characteristics such as an optimistic attitude, teammate encouragement, servant leadership, heart for others, ability to admit imperfections, giving 100 percent all the time and realizing the team is more important than the individual.
Positive Athletes in the northwest Georgia region consists of schools located in Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Pickens, Polk, Walker and Whitfield counties. In total, 23 different public and private high schools were represented amongst the winners for this year’s awards cycle.
This year, over 6,800 nominations from coaches, principals, athletic directors, teachers and parents were submitted for the Positive Athlete program state-wide, representing over 420 public and private high schools.
All of the award winners were recognized on campus at their local high school, and had a chance to win a state-wide award in their sport category, which was announced in early May.
The 2024 Georgia Positive Athlete Awards will be held in early June, and will be a night in which all scholarship winners and state-wide award winners are recognized.
(By Positive Athlete)