The Loveland High School Athletic Department is among three high school athletic departments in Ohio that have been selected to receive the Annual “Award of Excellence” recognition in 2019.
The award, a collaboration between the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) and the Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (OIAAA), recognizes schools that provide exemplary support and promotion of education-based athletic programming in their school and community.
Recipients of this year’s award are Findlay High School (Nate Weihrauch, athletic administrator), Loveland High School (Brian Conaster, athletic administrator) and Woodridge High School (Nick Mayer, athletic administrator).
The focus of this award is to recognize on-going and consistent efforts on the part of Ohio interscholastic athletic departments that demonstrate best practice in the endorsement and promotion of education-based athletic programming. Specifically, this award recognizes schools that demonstrate intentional efforts to shift the culture of school-based sport programs on an on-going process.
Recipients of the “Award of Excellence” will be honored at the Ohio Men’s State Basketball Championships, March 21-23, 2019 at the Schottenstein Center at The Ohio State University.
The OHSAA and the OIAAA believe there are several benchmarks which identify quality, education-based athletic programs:
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- School athletic programs are inherently educational
- School athletic programs compliment the educational experience
- School athletic programs enhance the educational mission of the school
- School athletic programs serve as an extension of the academic classroom
- School athletic programs teach life lessons not regularly available in the academic classroom
- School athletic programs have courts, fields, tracks, pools and courses as teaching classrooms
