03/27/25 – Neil Middleton Earns NFHS State Award For Outstanding Service

March 27, 2025 2024-2025 News Releases

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MARCH 27, 2025

After a four-decade career in Eastern Kentucky sports media, Neil Middleton has been awarded the NFHS State Award for Outstanding Service.

Starting his television career at WYMT in 1987, Middleton’s recognition comes for his contributions and media coverage to schools, coaches, players and fans throughout his storied career.

Middleton was the long-time director of the WYMT Mountain Basketball Classic and served as a board member for several organizations in Kentucky’s Appalachian region, including the Center for Rural Development, One East Kentucky, Alice Lloyd College, Eastern Kentucky PRIDE, East Kentucky Leadership Foundation, the Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky and the Kentucky Associated Press.

 

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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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