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Welcome to the Coach's corner of the State Farm® Texas Scholar Athlete website
The State Farm® Texas Scholar Athlete Program recognizes high school seniors throughout Texas who exhibit leadership and good citizenship in academics and athletics, and who do so while demonstrating diversity by their extracurricular activities and commitment.
Scholar Athletes are individuals that excel in academic endeavors, as well as participate in UIL athletic practices, games and competitions on a daily basis. Most importantly, a scholar-athlete is an individual whose academic progress and success serves as a priority
Once again this year, fifty student-athletes will be selected to receive a $1,000 scholarship. Selection is based on criteria which include GPA, class ranking, academic achievements, UIL athletic participation, and in extra-curricular activities.
Students selected for this program are nominated by their high school counselors, but coaches can play an important part in this process!
Frequently Asked Questions
◊ What are the deadlines for being nominated?
◊ What are the UIL varsity sports?
◊ What do I do if I have an athlete who should be nominated?
◊ A look at the 2007-2008 Class of Scholar Athletes
◊ Who do I contact if I have any questions?
- Graduating with the class of 2009
- Currently active in at least one UIL Varsity High School sport
- Maintaining a 3.0+ GPA or equivalent
- Scholar Athletes are selected throughout the year beginning on October 1st and ending on April 15th
- Student nominations are considered for all selections regardless of when they were submitted
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Cross Country
- Football
- Golf
- Soccer
- Softball
- Swimming & Diving
- Team Tennis
- Tennis
- Track & Field
- Volleyball
- Wrestling
We accepted over 1,800 valid nominations from 423 high schools across the State of Texasr. These nominees represented an outstanding group of student athletes who are a credit to themselves and to the schools they attend. All of these talented young leaders deserve the accolade of being a State Farm® Texas Scholar Athlete Nominee.
The selection process was extremely competitive and yielded a group of fifty young men and women whose academic and athletic accomplishments are extraordinary, and whose leadership was demonstrated by a varied and extensive track record of involvement in their schools and their communities.
Some of the characteristics of these fifty impressive Scholar Athlete scholarship awardees of 2007-2008:
- 32 had GPA's which exceeded the scale (e.g. 4.50 on a scale of 4.0)
- 15 had GPA's that are within 10% of the scale (e.g. 3.98 on a scale of 4.0)
- The median class rank is 1st
- 45 are members of the National Honor Society
- 39 are School or Class Officers
- 29 have successfully taken multiple college-credit classes
- 35 have been leaders in, or involved in faith-based extracurricular activities
- 17 have been committed to music or dacne activities
- Most have competed in more than one varsity sport and some competed in two varsity sports. These include:
- 17 in Basketball
- 13 in Track & Field
- 12 in Football
- 10 in Tennis
- 8 in Cross Country
- 8 in Volleyball
- 7 in Baseball
- 5 in Soccer
- 3 in Softball
- 3 in Swimming
- 2 in Golf
- 1 in Power Lifting
- 1 in Water Polo
