Senior Lexy Heldt was selected as this year’s Triple-A Award winner and juniors Anna Phearman and Michael Burns were chosen as the ExCEL Award winners at Watertown-Mayer High School.
The awards are given annually to juniors and seniors who best represent the school not just as students, but also through athletics, extracurricular activities and community involvement. Both awards are sponsored by the Minnesota State High School League, and are part of a larger statewide competition where the nominees from each school are submitted to the state, and a number of statewide winners are selected. Those winners are expected to be announced in early February.
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