Cherokee HS Student Wins Georgias Most Positive Male Athlete Award Jacob Klebar, a member of the schools football team who recently graduated and is headed to Reinhardt University on an academic scholarship, will be honored this month at the 2016-17 Georgia Positive Athlete Awards at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.The award is presented by Positive Athlete Georgia, a subsidiary of Celebrate Positive, LLC, which promotes the benefits of positivity to young athletes around the world. Hines Ward, a former Forest Park High School, University of Georgia and Pittsburgh Steelers football star, formed Positive Athlete with local businessman Scott Pederson.More than 3,400 students are nominated annually by coaches, principals, athletic directors, teachers and parents. Awards are presented for specific sports and regions, with the top award Positive Athlete of the Year -- presented to one male and one female student for the entire state. In addition to excellence on the field, Positive Athletes must show characteristics such as an optimistic attitude, teammate encouragement, servant leadership, heart for others, ability to admit imperfections, giving 100 percent all the time, and realizing the team as more important than the individual.
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