03/27/25 – Ivan Rice, Rick Shaw Awarded First-Ever Bob White/Mike Fields Media Service Award

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MARCH 27, 2025

Ivan Rice and Rick Shaw, the first-ever recipients of the Bob White/Mike Fields Media Service Award, were honored on Thursday during the opening round of the 2025 UK HealthCare Boys’ Basketball Sweet 16® inside Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center in Lexington.

The newly instituted Bob White/Mike Fields Media Service Award is presented to an individual in recognition of a career promoting student-athletes, coaches and officials throughout the Commonwealth, as well as for devoted service to interscholastic athletics.

A native of Paris who is affectionately known as the “Doctor of Sports,” Rice has covered Paris and Bourbon County sports for the Bourbon County Citizen for over 40 years. He has been voted into several Halls of Fame for his coverage and won numerous Kentucky Press Association awards.

Shaw, whose real name is Rick Pope, is a native of Ashland who spent more than 50 years in broadcast journalism. He was the originator and co-host of the Friday Night High School Scoreboard Show, which was heard on more than 40 stations across Kentucky.

A third recipient of the Bob White/Mike Fields Media Service Award will be honored later this school year.

 

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About the Kentucky High School Athletic Association

The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of 290 member schools, both public and non-public. The KHSAA awards 229 state championships to 59 teams and 178 individuals in 13 sports and six sport-activities, funds catastrophic insurance coverage for its more than 109,000 rostered member school student-athletes, provides coaching education and sports safety programs for more than 12,000 coaches and licenses and facilitates the distribution of training material for over 4,000 contest officials.

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