The Student of Excellence award is a new IsPOD tradition honoring 6-8 students that exhibit perserverance, academic excellence in health and physical education, willingness to help others, make significant improvement, and are in other ways deserving of special acknowledgement for IsPOD participation. The Student of Excellence award is NCAAHPERD's way of saying thank you to students who go above and beyond.

Please nominate up one male and one female 6-8 student per school for this award. He/she will receive an IsPOD Student of Excellence certificate, along with a t-shirt and a gift certificate for free admission to a health or fitness-oriented experience, such as a karate or dance lesson, climbing wall, or aqautic center.

For the Fall semester, nominations must be received by December 9th. For the Spring semester, nominations must be received by April 20th.