A pair of Trigg County High School athletes are among the school winners of The Heisman High School Scholarship which were recently announced.
Winning the award from TCHS were seniors Livi Ricks and Colin Stevens.
Ricks is a member of the cross country program at Trigg. She won the Class 2A Region 1 championship as a freshman and a sophomore. She placed 18th in the region this season. Ricks has been a member of the cross country team since middle school.
Stevens was state runner-up at 182 pounds last season as a member of the Trigg wrestling program. He was also all-region as a member of the Wildcats soccer team.
The Heisman High School Scholarship program honors the nation’s most accomplished, community-minded high school senior athletes. By inviting students from schools across the country to share their stories of leadership and impact, the program aims to inspire all students to harness their potential, push their limits, and use their talents not only to advance their own futures, but to improve the communities and world around them.
Over the past 25 years, the program has honored more than 600,000 of the nation’s most esteemed high school seniors and provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in college scholarships to students and more than a million dollars to high school academic and athletic programs across the country.
The state winners in Kentucky were Ryan Maynard of Taylor County and Danielle Prater of Phelps High School.
The Heisman High School Scholarship continues the legacy of the Wendy’s High School Heisman Scholarship, a program created in 1994 by Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas in partnership with The Heisman Trophy Trust. From its inception, the program has leveraged the reputation of the Heisman Memorial Trophy as a symbol of great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard work.
