Lodi’s Mason Lane is among 16 senior boys from St. Croix Falls to Racine have been selected as finalists to receive the prestigious 2024 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association’s (WIAA) Statewide Scholar Athlete Award, presented by We Energies Foundation and Wisconsin Public Service Foundation. More than 1,213 Scholar Athlete finalists have been recognized since the program began in 1984.
According to his bio for the award, Lane is a 10-time letterwinner, participating in football, wrestling and baseball. His leadership helped propel the Blue Devils to a state football championship his senior year while also earning both team and conference player of the year awards. Beyond the gridiron, Lane qualified for the State Individual Wresting Tournament his junior and senior years, and he also received the conference player of the year award in wrestling as a senior. In addition, he received all-conference honors in baseball as a junior.
Reflecting, Lane writes, “One of the most valuable lessons I learned, is that even if you do everything right, things may not go as planned. I spent years training to be a wrestling state champion, and I fell just short of that goal my senior year. What I have realized is it’s not only about the end result, but about the entire journey and process that allowed me to compete at that level.”
Lane intends to attend the University of Wisconsin and study business as a football preferred walk-on.
To determine the top 32 finalists, four boys and four girls were selected (based on both athletic and academic achievement) from each of the four WIAA divisions. “Each of these remarkable student athletes has excelled in academics and athletics,” said Tom Shafranski, Assistant Director of the WIAA. “17 of this year’s 32 WIAA Scholar Athlete finalists have a grade point average of 4.0 to date. When you combine all 32 scholar athlete GPAs, the average is 3.9. This year’s honorees have already earned a total of 323 varsity letters during their first 3-1/2 years of high school. That’s an average of ten letters per athlete, and we have not yet completed our spring sports season.”
This year more than 836 seniors were nominated for the award by 422 high schools throughout the state.
The 2024 WIAA Scholar Athlete Finalists will be recognized at an awards ceremony Sunday, May 5 at SentryWorld in Stevens Point. Keynote speaker will be Joe Delagrave, a two-time Paralympic medalist and current head coach of the U.S. Wheelchair Rugby Team.
Of interest this year, St. Croix Falls High School produced two WIAA Scholar Athletes — Lucy Belisle and Eli Prokop. Additionally, Edgar High School has their twelfth WIAA Scholar Athlete, Teegan Streit, and Mauston High School honoree Brock Massey and Stevens Point Area Senior High honoree Aloysius Franzen are their schools tenth award recipients.
A live stream of the awards program will be available statewide across ABC affiliates, including WKOW, WAOW, WXOW, WQOW, WVTV and CW14 at 1 p.m. on May 5. A video replay of the Awards Program will take place on Sunday, May 12 at 1 p.m. More information is available on the WIAA’s website, including:
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