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Let the spotlight stay on your students long after the award ceremonies are over. Many high-achievers carry the pride of their scholastic excellence through college and into their adult lives.

Student athletes have some of the hardest jobs in school, striving for excellence in the classroom as well as in the arena. Whether in team or individual sports, in exciting local rivalries or state championships, your students are doing you proud while representing your school. There are several options you can offer those athletes to reward those accomplishments. Here are a few that we recommend.

A true classic, the varsity jacket communicates achievement, skill, and prestige all at once. It’s an obvious choice for displaying hard-earned chenille patches, pins, medals—and the varsity letter, of course.

Sports banquet awards ceremonies are a great way to honor students who, after a lot of hard work and dedication, have achieved personal and collective goals. Planning these award banquets, on the other hand, can be rather overwhelming and time-consuming.

Students who have lettered in their favorite activity are usually chomping at the bit to show their school pride! They want to deck out their letterman jacket and wear it to school for the first time to show off. Many first-timers don't know how to sew on chenille patches, though, and that can slow things down.

No letterman jacket is complete without those iconic, plush chenille patches. Letterman jackets may be a status symbol for high school and college students, but they can be a struggle for parents to clean.

When it comes to placing letterman jacket patches, there may not be an official spot for every patch, but there is an art to arranging them well. Placing your letterman patches haphazardly as you earn them will result in a jumble of numbers, letters, and symbols.