Notre Dame senior wins special state scholarship

A two-sport (basketball and soccer) athletic and academic standout for Notre Dame, senior Celia Gaynor has earned the 2018 Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (MIAAA) scholarship.

Notre Dame senior Celia Gaynor was named one of only six senior student-athletes in Michigan to earn the 2018 Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (MIAAA) scholarship.

"Congratulations to Celia on winning this honor and scholarship," said NDPMA athletic director and assistant principal Betty Wroubel. "This is quite an honor! The Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Administrators (MIAAA) scholarship is a highly competitive scholarship reserved for student athletes who best exemplify the values found and developed in educational athletics."

The $1,000 grant is part of an annual MIAAA program that helps defray the college expenses of exceptional graduating seniors as they make their way to colleges and universities in the fall.

A two-sport (basketball and soccer) athletic and academic standout for the Fighting Irish, Gaynor also was named 2017 First-Team All-State in soccer and was instrumental in Notre Dame's 2016 state title in soccer. In January, she was named a finalist for the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s Scholar-Athlete Award in Class B.

Gaynor will take her soccer skills to Butler University in the fall.

"I am so excited and proud that our professional organization (MIAAA) chose Celia as one of the six recipients from the hundreds of applications they received," Wroubel added. "Her character, values and understanding of the role that high school sports plays in developing good young people, citizens and academic scholars serves as a great example for others to model."

Gaynor will be playing soccer at Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind.

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About Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy
Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy is a private, Catholic, independent, coeducational day school located in Oakland County. Notre Dame's upper school enrolls students in grades nine through twelve and has been named one of the nation's best 50 Catholic high schools (Acton Institute) four times since 2005. Notre Dame's middle and lower schools enroll students in pre-kindergarten through grade eight. All three schools are International Baccalaureate "World Schools." NDPMA is conducted by the Marist Fathers and Brothers and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. For more on Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy, visit the school's home page at www.ndpma.org.