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Makennah Uotila (center) of Ontonagon High School was honored as a recipient of the Michigan High School Athletic Association/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award at the 2023 MHSAA Boys Basketball Finals at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing on March 25.

Shown with Uotila are Mark Uyl (left) executive director of the MHSAA; and Deb Dansby, vice president of marketing for Farm Bureau Insurance. Uotila will receive a $2,000 scholarship from Farm Bureau Insurance to be used at the institution of higher learning she attends this fall. Farm Bureau Insurance awarded 32 scholarships, proportionately by school classification, to students with a 3.50 or higher (on a 4.0 scale) grade point average who have previously lettered in at least one sport in which postseason competition is sponsored by the MHSAA.