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COLUMBUS — Galion High School was one of seven schools around Ohio selected to receive the annual “Award of Excellence” recognition in 2018.
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.
“This is an incredible honor for our High School and the Galion City School District,” said Kyle Baughn, High School Athletic Director. “We work hard to be intentional in our efforts to exemplify the mission and culture of education-based athletic programs as an on-going process.”
The OHSAA and the OIAAA believe there are several benchmarks which identify quality, education-based athletic programs: 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.
“This is an incredible achievement for our school district,” said Jim Grubbs, Galion Superintendent. “We are one of only seven in the entire state being recognized, making this an even greater accomplishment because of our commitment to developing the whole student-athlete, first as a student and second as an athlete.”
Galion High School was honored during the 2018 Ohio Boys State Basketball Championships on Thursday, March 22 at halftime of the Division IV state basketball semi-finals at the Schottenstein Center on the campus of The Ohio State University.