Kpreps is proud to announce the 3rd Annual Get Busy Livin' - Kpreps Player of the Year Award promoting The Dylan Meier Foundation. The award is made possible by Mytown Media.
The annual award honors one Kansas senior who not only has shown excellence on the field, but has also demonstrated the values that Get Busy Livin' (GBL) strives to promote: adventure, fitness, curiousity, generosity, and a daily zest for life experiences.
As part of the award, Mytown Media will make a donation of $1,000 on behalf of the award winner to The Dylan Meier Foundation.
Nominations for the award will be accepted through December 20, 2013. Finalists will be selected by a committee made up of GBL, Mytown Media, and Kpreps representatives. Finalists will be featured on Kpreps.com and the winner will be presented the award at a school function early in 2014.
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The 2012 Get Busy Livin' - Kpreps Player of the Year was Brad Strauss of Lawrence High School. Strauss, who red-shirted this season at current NCAA Division II No. 1 Northwest Missouri State, was presented the award on March 28, 2013 by two of Dylan's brothers - Shad and Kerry Meier - at a school assembly. All four of the Meier brothers played college football, with Shad and Dylan competing at Kansas State, Adam at Pittsburg State and Kerry at The University of Kansas. Shad also played in the NFL with the Tennessee Titans and New Orleans Saints and Kerry is currently under contract with the Atlanta Falcons.
In 2011, the Get Busy Livin' - Kpreps Player of the Year was Kole Schankie of Madison High School.
ABOUT DYLAN MEIER & THE GET BUSY LIVIN' FOUNDATION
Dylan Meier, a 2002 graduate of Pittsburg High School, was a two-time All-State quarterback for the Purple Dragons. He continued his football career at Kansas State and started 11 games from 2004-2006 as the Wildcats' signal caller.
On April 19, 2010, Meier died in an accident while hiking with family in Arkansas.
In addition to his time in Kansas, Dylan played professional football in Germany and Italy, served as a bodyguard for Italian fashion models, worked in a vineyard overseas, ran with the bulls in Spain, and went skydiving in the Alps. His next plans included coaching football in Europe, teaching English in Korea and possibly a return to Kansas State as a graduate assistant.
“He had a real zest for life,” Merle Clark, Dylan’s former coach and a family friend said days after the accident. “He lived a lot in his 26 years.”
That zest for life is the basis of the Get Busy Livin’ Foundation that was established in Dylan’s honor. The mission is to provide support for individuals and groups that embody the values that Dylan pursued: adventurer, fitness, curiosity, generosity, and a daily zest for life experiences.
The GBL Foundation is determined to breakdown the boundaries that keep people from living life to the fullest, whether those boundaries be social, economical or imaginary.
The GBL Foundation will use donations to promote these values in the following ways: student/athletic scholarships, sport camp sponsorships, student travel abroad scholarships, community service needs and other activities that inspire and build character.
For more information, please visit http://getbusylivin.org
ABOUT MYTOWN MEDIA
Mytown Media is a broadcasting company operating 14 radio stations throughout Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Mytown Media's Kansas stations include KWXD-Pittsburg, KKOY-Chanute, KINZ-Chanute, KEKS-Emporia, KSNP-Burlington, KKDT-LaCrosse, KXNC-LaCrosse and KQZQ-Medicine Lodge.
For more information, please visit http://mytown-media.com
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