06/14/25 – Gary Ball Receives Bob White/Mike Fields Media Service Award

June 14, 2025 2024-2025 News Releases

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JUNE 14, 2025

Gary Ball, the third-ever recipient of the newly instituted Bob White/Mike Fields Media Service Award, was honored on Saturday prior to the championship game of the 2025 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Baseball State Tournament presented by UK HealthCare at Kentucky Proud Park on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

The 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.

Ball has been involved in the promotion of high school athletics for more than three decades, including the last 23 years as host and producer of the Scholastic Ball Report on WKYT. A graduate of the University of Kentucky and Boone County High School, Ball serves as on-air talent for both PrepSpin and khsaa.tv on the NFHS Network.

Ball joins Ivan Rice and Rick Shaw, who were each honored at the UK HealthCare Boys’ Basketball Sweet 16® last March, as inaugural recipients of the Bob White/Mike Fields Media Service Award.

 

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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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