2024-25 MHSAA-Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award 2024-25 marks the 36th year Farm Bureau Insurance has sponsored the MHSAA’s Scholar-Athlete Award. Since the beginning of the sponsorship, Farm Bureau Insurance has awarded over $1,000,000 in Scholar-Athlete awards. This year, 32 $2,000 scholarships will be available to high school seniors who meet the eligibility requirements listed below. Eligibility Requirements: Enrollment - Student must be enrolled and participating in interscholastic athletics at an MHSAA member school. Senior Status - Student must be a senior graduating during the 2024-25 school year. Varsity Letter - Student must have prior to senior year won a varsity letter in a sport in which the MHSAA sponsors a postseason tournament. 3.50 GPA - Student must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. You may not round up a 3.4x grade point average for the purposes of qualifying. Application Sections, Scoring & Helpful Hints: Essay (40%): Be creative in telling the judges why sportsmanship is important to educational athletics. VERY IMPORTANT: the judges will be reading dozens of essays - make yours stand out! Tell the judges a personal story about sportsmanship; don't give them the Webster's definition of sportsmanship. Extra-Curricular Activities Form (30%): Focus on significant leadership experiences and significant athletic achievements and academic awards won. Judges are looking for quality of experiences, not quantity of experiences. Short-Answer Questions (20%): Use this space to tell us more about your experiences in high school sports and activities. These are not throw-away questions, consider them mini-essays Letters of Recommendation (10%): Approach coaches, teachers, school administrators, youth group leaders or others in your community to have them write recommendation letters so the judges can learn a little bit more about you. Please contact your Athletic Director for the Access Code to begin the application process.