(From the MHSAA)
The Michigan High School Athletic Association has announced that it has selected Courtney Reinhold of Saginaw Swan Valley and seven other student-athletes from Class B member schools to receive scholarships through its Scholar-Athlete Award program.
Farm Bureau Insurance is in its 25th year of sponsoring the award, and gives $1,000 college scholarships to 32 individuals who represent their member schools in at least one sport in which the Association sponsors a postseason tournament. The first 30 scholarships are awarded proportionately by school classification and number of student-athletes involved in those classes; also, there are two at-large honorees who can come from any classification.
Each of the scholarship recipients will be honored at halftime ceremonies of the Class C Boys Basketball Final game March 22 at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing.
Courtney Reinhold, Saginaw Swan Valley.
Reinhold played varsity volleyball for four seasons, basketball for two and will play her fourth of softball this spring. She was all-state as a pitcher the last two softball seasons while leading her team to MHSAA Division 2 Finals runner-up finishes at the end of both.
Reinhold earned all-conference in volleyball the last two seasons and led her team to a regional title in the fall. She served as team captain of all three, has a 4.0 grade-point average and is a four-year member of her student government and Students Against Destructive Decisions chapter. Reinhold was secretary of her Business Professionals of America state championship team and attended the Great Lakes Bay Regional Youth Leadership Institute. She volunteered for her community’s Make a Difference Day and youth sports camps and will go to Grand Valley State University and study radiation therapy.
Essay Quote: “(After a volleyball District win) I looked down at my phone and I couldn’t believe what I saw: the girl, the one everyone had said we would battle it out, had sent me a personal message. She told me congratulations, and she said she could tell my teammates looked up to me and that I was a great leader. … I was so taken back because this was also her senior year and last game, but she showed so much sportsmanship and grace to reach out to me.”