Scott Unash has been selected to receive a media award from the Iowa High School Athletic Association, the group announced Thursday.

Unash is program director at KGYM and a columnist for the Metro Sports Report. He has worked in radio the past 23 years, the first two at KOUR in Independence and the last 21 at KCRG and KGYM.  He is a 1984 graduate of Kennedy High School and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1988.

Six times Unash has been named top play-by-play announcer by the Iowa Broadcast News Association. He regularly calls high school football and girls and boys basketball games. He also has called high school baseball, Hawkeye Downs racing, Cedar Rapids Kernels baseball and college contests during his career.

Unash will receive his award between the Class 1A and 2A boys basketball championship games on Friday, March 11.

Other honorees during the state tournament:

Media Awards

Scott Unash, KGYM-AM, Cedar Rapids
Perry Bell, Knoxville Journal Express, sports editor
Dave Bingham, WOI-TV, Ames
Lee Muntz, KCII-AM, Washington
Tammy Virzi, Columbus Gazette, Columbus Junction

IHSAA Character Counts Coach of the Year

Darrell Schumacher, head football coach, Oskaloosa

Officials Hall of Fame

David Anderson, Boone
Price Dahlstrom, Mason City
Larry Leinbaugh, Omaha
Barry Shea, Guttenberg
Phillip Sinnwell, Des Moines
Ron Wing, Sioux City
Charles Zahn, McGregor

Sports Medicine Awards

Curtis Hesse, DO, Mapleton
Luke Carlson, DPT, Ankeny

School Administrator Awards

Ken Blackman, Red Oak
Gordon Fliehe, Logan-Magnolia
Roger Fread, North Mahaska
Gary Feuerbach, Bellevue
Roger L. Herring, Atlantic
Bruce Hukee, Johnston
Dr. Tom Narak, West Des Moines
Erv Rowlands, Ruthven-Ayrshire
Bob Sweeney, Atlantic
Gary Telford, Ankeny
Floyd G. Winter, Cedar Falls

Bernie Saggau Award of Merit

Jeanne Ehn, BCLUW
Nancy Huether, Ballard
Chuck Offenburger, Cooper
Fred Whipple, Mediapolis

Hall of Fame

Coaches

Pat Kedley, Clarence-Lowden/North Cedar
William Miller, Manilla/IKM
Gordon Rundquist, West Branch/Maquoketa Valley

Players

Terry Carroll, Ames
Tommy Goodman, Sioux City North
Tom Schulze, Des Moines Roosevelt
Matt Sundblad, Johnston
Dave Van Essen, Western Christian
Don Ziegler, Laurens