Incoming senior Braxton Myers has been named the Male Athlete of the Year at Connersville High School for the 2021-2022 school year.
Myers, a 3-sport athlete at CHS is a member of the football, basketball, and baseball teams for the Spartans. Deprived of his junior year of football due to a knee injury during the offseason, Myers was close enough to full strength for the beginning of basketball.
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