Logansport senior Adrienne Scott has won the NNHSCA Kevin Vanderbush All-American Award, recognizing her achievements in athletics and academics. She is one of eight girls from Indiana and 63 nationwide to receive this honor.
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Logansport senior Adrienne Scott has won a national award from the National High School Strength Coaches Association.
Scott was recently named an NNHSCA Kevin Vanderbush All-American Award winner.
This award is given annually to a current senior high school athlete who has demonstrated outstanding achievement on and off the field in strength and conditioning, athletic performance, academics and leadership.
She is one of eight girls from Indiana and 63 in the nation to win the award.
She had to meet certain numbers for power clean (150 pounds), back squat (250 pounds), bench press (150 pounds), trap bar deadlift (280 pounds), 40 yard dash, pro agility (4.68 seconds) and vertical jump (24.7 inches).
Aside from that, factored in was her 3.9 GPA, leadership responsibilities, individual and team honors, sport success and letters of recommendation from both her sport coaches and the strength coach.
She is a three-sport athlete, participating in softball, volleyball and gymnastics, and she is one of the best athletes in the area in each of those sports.
Standing in at 5-foot-2, 125 pounds, she is pound-for-pound the strongest girl at LHS.
Logansport strength coach Nick Price nominated Scott for the award.
“I believe it’s the sixth or seventh year that this award has been in place,” Price said. “It actually got recently renamed the Kevin Vanderbush All-American Award, which Kevin Vanderbush is a legendary coach from Ben Davis. He’s who we call the godfather of strength and conditioning coaches for high school athletics. So it’s a great honor to have his name on that award, too, and have your name attached to it. Strict criteria goes into the award. It’s a great honor.”
Scott credited Price for his role in her winning her award.
“I’ve been lifting since my eighth grade year, but I didn’t really take it serious until high school. Price has a great program. He’s really encouraging. He wants to make you better, so he just did that for me,” she said.
Logansport currently has the second-ranked softball team in Class 3A and Scott is the team’s starting center fielder. She said several of her teammates lift weights as well and take a weights class in school.
“I know Gracie (Risley) does. Brooklynn (Hagerty) lifts with the football weights because she’s the manager, so that’s got to be good for her. But I think a lot of the underclassmen are in weights, so I think they’ll all show a lot of improvement over the years on the field and just lifting just makes a huge improvement when you’re an athlete,” she said.
Scott has experienced a recent power surge at the plate herself. She recently hit the first home run of her career over the fence against Western’s Lucy George, who is set to pitch at Michigan. Scott has four home runs on the season, two that have went over the fence.
“I hit one in practice last year but in games I never really came close,” she said. “This year I finally broke the curse and did it.
The NNHSCA Kevin Vanderbush All-American Award is given annually to senior high school athletes who excel in strength and conditioning, athletic performance, academics, and leadership.
Adrienne Scott is one of eight girls from Indiana who won the Vanderbush All-American Award this year.
To win the award, athletes must meet specific performance metrics in power clean, back squat, bench press, trap bar deadlift, 40-yard dash, pro agility, and vertical jump.
Adrienne Scott's metrics include a power clean of 150 pounds, back squat of 250 pounds, bench press of 150 pounds, trap bar deadlift of 280 pounds, a 40-yard dash time of 4.68 seconds, and a vertical jump of 24.7 inches.
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“I never thought it was possible for me to hit a home run, but I think strength definitely helps. I mean, obviously your swing and everything falls into it too, but strength is a big part of it.”
Scott leads the Berries in hits (26), runs scored (24) and triples (2), is second in batting average (.473), on-base percentage (.517), stolen bases (5) and doubles (5) and third in home runs (4), RBIs (14), slugging percentage (.855) and OPS (1.372).
“She is a natural athlete,” Logansport coach Molly Sterrett said. “I don’t know how she does it, but she can hit a ball about anywhere in the zone and make it look easy. So I’m really happy for her and proud of her for the work she’s contributed thus far. And I’m looking forward to the next part of our season.”
Scott is also a standout defensive player in center field.
“She’s very seamless, very fluid. She again, she makes it look easy,” Sterrett said.
The Berries are 16-1 and are favored to repeat as Hoosier Conference champions. They will also be favored to win the upcoming Logansport Sectional. They won a Class 4A sectional title two years ago.
“I’m hoping that we make it all the way,” Scott said. “It’d be awesome to win a state championship or even regionals or semi-state, but I think we definitely can do it with the teams we’ve been beating and the competition we’ve been playing. I think we can do it.”
After high school Scott plans on attending Purdue University and majoring in medical laboratory sciences. She added she’d like to try to walk on to the Purdue softball team if she gets the opportunity.
“I’ve thought about trying to walk on. If I get the opportunity it’d be amazing and I’d do it. But I just got to keep working,” she said.
She has put in hard work in the weight room.
“She holds all of the all-time records for our weight class for her weight class,” Price said. “She’s setting the standard high for the next girls coming up. She’s been in my class and she’s hardly missed a day in the last four years. She just works extremely hard, and it’s just great to have those athletes in the room to be a good example for the younger athletes. So we’ve been very blessed to have her.”