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June 5, 2009
THE ROBERT S.
HINSHAW MENTAL ATTITUDE AWARD
Members of
the IHSAA Executive Committee announced Ben Stancombe
of
Stancombe
finished second in shot put and sixth in discus in this year’s state finals. Stancombe was also
a four year letter winner in football for the Panthers. He placed fifth in the Hammer Throw
Championships for the USA Track and Field Junior Olympics in 2007 and he holds
the school’s shot put record with a distance of 60-4.
Academically,
he is ranked 52nd in his class of 365 and scored an impressive 1740
on the SAT. Ben is a member of the
National Honor Society, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Campus Life, and is a
Bloomington South Cadet teacher. He has
received the Principal’s Scholar Award, President’s Award for Educational
Excellence, Donald Childs Medal Award, National Scholars Award, and the
Conference Indiana Academic Award.
Stancomb
will attend the
Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, the proud corporate partner of all IHSAA tournaments, presented a $1,000 scholarship to Bloomington South in Stancombe’s name.