The Ohio High School Athletic Association and its six District Athletic Boards are proud to once again offer the college scholarship program for the 2025-26 school year. School administrators will be provided information regarding the necessary steps to nominate senior student-athletes, one female and one male, for both the Scholar-Athlete and the Ethnic Minority Scholarship programs, with one male and one female nominee for each program. Recipients are selected based on a point system which rewards students for grade point averages; class rank; community service; varsity letters earned; and individual and team athletic honors. The number of scholarship recipients from each district are based upon the number of schools within the district. For more information, please contact Bob Goldring (
[email protected]).
IMPORTANT NOTE ON THE OHSAA SCHOLAR-ATHLETE PROGRAM: Please be aware that the OHSAA has two (2) separate scholar-athlete recognition opportunities. Besides the Scholar-Athlete Scholarship Program outlined on this page, in which a $1,000 monetary award is provided, each member high school has the opportunity to present a senior male and a senior female with an OHSAA Scholar-Athlete Award, a certificate which exemplifies the commitment to academic excellence while participating in interscholastic athletics and is generally presented during the school’s senior assembly in the spring. While each honor is important, these awards are different since not every member school will have a scholar-athlete scholarship recipient, but each school has the opportunity to present two OHSAA Scholar-Athlete Awards. OHSAA Scholar-Athlete certificates are available in your school’s myOHSAA account.