EAST LANSING - Nine student-athletes from Michigan High School Athletic Association Class B member schools have been selected to receive scholarships through its Scholar-Athlete Award program. Among them is Chelsea High School senior Patrick Roberts.

Roberts, along with the other eight scholarship recipients, will be honored at halftime ceremonies of the Class C boys basketball final at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing on March 26.

Roberts has earned 10 varsity letters in soccer, basketball and baseball. He was a three-time all-district and all-conference performer in soccer; won basketball all-conference twice and was voted most valuable player of the basketball team as a junior. He is a team captain in both soccer and basketball, has earned high honors honor roll all four years and has been a member of the National Honor Society for two years. A part of the St. Mary’s Church Youth Group, Roberts has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity mission trips, the local Knights of Columbus and at the community hospital. He plans to study pre-medicine at Miami University. In Roberts' essay submission, he wrote, “A great player is the one who stands by the highest tier of sportsmanship. A good sport sends a positive image about them, and more importantly sends a positive image about the people that coached them and the schools they are from.”

Farm Bureau Insurance, in its 22nd year of sponsoring the award, will give a $1,000 college scholarship to 32 individuals who represent their member school in at least one sport in which the Association sponsors a post-season tournament. The first 30 scholarships are awarded proportionately by school classification and the number of student-athletes involved in those classes; and there are two at-large honorees which can come from any classification.

For a complete list of Class B scholarship recipients, visit MHSAA.com.