NYSPHSAA Announces Spring 2017 Scholar-Athlete Teams And Individuals
Published: May 31st, 2017

11 Chenango County teams and 189 individual student-athletes recognized

LATHAM, NY – The New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) announces its spring 2017 Scholar-Athlete teams and individuals. This is the 25th year the NYSPHSAA has conducted the Scholar-Athlete program, which is sponsored by Pupil Benefits Plan, Inc.

This spring 2,064 teams received the Scholar-Athlete Team Award. Even more impressive, 35,301 student-athletes received an individual grade point average of 90.00 or above, and have been recognized as Individual Scholar-Athletes. The change in this year’s program resulted in over 1,200 more individual scholar-athletes being recognized during this spring season compared to the spring 2016 season.

“Congratulations to our member schools and student-athletes,” said Executive Director Robert Zayas. “We continue to be proud of this program especially this year in which we recognized an additional 1,200 student-athletes achieving high standards in the classroom. We are excited to have the opportunity to expand this program to honor even more students for the academic excellence.”

The School of Excellence and School of Distinction Awards will be given to deserving schools over the summer. The School of Excellence Award recognizes schools who have 75 percent of its varsity programs receive the Scholar-Athlete Team Award over the academic school year. The School of Distinction Award recognizes schools who have 100 percent of its varsity programs receive the Scholar-Athlete Team Award.

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The full list of Scholar-Athlete Teams and Individuals for the 2017 spring season can be found at http://www.nysphsaa.org/Educational-Programs/Scholar-Athletes.

Listed below are the teams in Chenango County who were recognized for their academic excellence, as well as how many individuals on each squad were individually recognized.

Baseball teams:

Section IV: Bainbridge-Guilford

Section III: Sherburne-Earlville

Golf teams:

Section III: Sherburne-Earlville

Outdoor Track and Field teams:

Section IV: Bainbridge-Guilford boys

Section IV: Harpursville-Afton boys

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Section III: Sherburne-Earlville boys

Section IV: Bainbridge-Guilford girls

Section IV: Greene girls