Howard Sophomore Isaiah Respert Wins ‘Most Positive Student Athlete’ Award in Football Category
Of all the nominations across the entire state of Georgia, Respert wins 'most postive student athlete' award in football
MACON, Georgia – (41NBC/WMGT) – Last week, Howard Sophomore Isaiah Respert won the ‘Most Positive Student Athlete’ award in the Football category. The award comes from coaches and teachers nominating student athletes, who they think exemplify the most positive student athlete they know.
Respert was honored to win the award. “You can ask my mom, when I found out I won it, I started crying” said Respert. “I’m blessed and I’m honored that my coaches think that highly of me. I’m blessed that my teachers think highly of me. At the end of the day, that’s kind of my personality. I’m nice to everybody, I treat everybody with respect, and I want to treat people how I want to be treated.”
His leadership and role model expertise is what got him the award in the first place, and Respert thinks it comes from his parents, both of which are Coaches in their own right. “From a young age, I was around coaching” said Respert. “I’ve seen what coach leadership looks like, player leadership looks like, so I think once you been around something so long, you start to fit into it, you start being what it is, so it’s kind of second nature.”
Respert credits all the support around him for this success. “My mom raised me well, my dad raised me well, everybody around me raised me well and raised me this way, to be helpful towards anybody I can” said Respert. “To win it, it’s nice, but I’d feel better helping other people out, than helping myself out.”
Even new Head Coach Trey Porter loves the way he conducts himself on and off the field as a leader to his teammates. “His leadership has shown. He was one of the first kids to reach out to me once I got the job here” said Porter. “Having players that are kids of coaches always helps, even his mom is a cheer-leading coach…He enjoys it. I think he’s got a bright future ahead of him, probably one off the field in the coaching world, but just being able to have somebody that the kids obviously look up to because he’s accountable and he’s here, just being present, he’s been one of the kids that we can say ‘hey, I need you to go help these young guys do this.'”
Coach Porter is proud that one of his players won this award. He explains how it helps this young Huskies Football program.
“He’s been a leader under the offensive line” said Porter. “He’s not taking a back seat. We preach leadership, we teach championship level effort, and he stands for what our program is being built on right now, which is discipline, attitude, and effort.
The Howard Huskies 2024 Football schedule follows the video.
