I previously mentioned two of the original players who started Byrd Junior High/Middle School soccer and stars (Scott and Robbie) who played each game for seventh, eighth, and ninth grades....and both (if my memory is substantial) had commendable grades.
My memory is that of Scott achieving perfect grade averages through those first three years, and my instituting the Scott Carter Scholar-Athlete Award as an honor for the player who achieved best grade averages throughout the scholastic year. I made an effort to keep track of the players' grades throughout the year up to season's end.

Mentioning the winner(s) might be appropriate. Note that several players won three years in a row when we had the original junior high program, but I hope to be fair by naming the winners once per name roughly in order: Scott Carter, Derek Linderman, CalebTaylor, John Conner, Aaron Dowdy, Andy Babcock, Chris Dowdy, Brant Somma, Brad McConnell, Andy Goodman. Remember that this coach has bragged or will brag about the quality and number of student/players we have proudly discovered in numbers on each yearly soccer team..!! These names so far have covered about half the twenty year program under my coaching. The roughly last ten years of winners include Ian Terrell, Ashley Lugar, Drew Murray, Mark Armstrong, Greg Moses, Chris Shutt, Brian Hill, Alex Fisher, Garrett Page, and Kyle O'Connor.

Other awards were MVP that was begun in the beginning years (defensively Bryan Holland, Ryan Ransom and offensively Shawn Niday.) As a new coach aware of the significance of team honors, I changed to honors or awards like offensive leaders, defensive players, coach's award, most hustle, or top scorer..!