135 Pound Champ Taylor March Wins Mental Attitude Award

3/12/2009

Following the state tournament, the IHSAA Executive Committee named Taylor March of East Noble High School as the recipient of the Ward E. Brown Mental Attitude Award.

March capped his senior year as the 135 pound state champion and ends as his school’s career wins leader with 163 victories. He had placed third at 125 last year and was runner-up at 119 in 2007 and runner-up at 112 in 2006.

Academically, March ranks first in his senior class of 268 students and is a member of the National Honor Society. He intends to enroll at Central Michigan University in the fall to begin studying sports medicine.

He has been involved in numerous community activities as well as assisting Special Education students within the school system, working with younger wrestlers during the summer and as a football youth camp volunteer.

March is the son of Larry and Kim March of Avilla.

The award was named in honor of the IHSAA’s fourth commissioner (1976-1983) in 1985. Recipients of the award must be nominated by their principal and coach and must excel in mental attitude, scholarship, leadership and athletic ability in the sport.

Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, corporate sponsor of the IHSAA, presented a $1,000 scholarship to East Noble High School in the name of March.


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