Patrick Mackey Courage Award
This award is given to provide recognition to an individual in our region who has exemplified great courage by surviving extreme personal hardship or difficulty OR who has assisted someone else in doing the same. The award-winner must be a high school, college or professional athlete, coach or administrator.
Selection process: Nominations are accepted in early winter from members of this chapter. Nominations are evaluated by the awards committee, which recommends no more than one recipient per year. This recommendation must be ratified by the Board of Directors and the presentation should be made at either Scholar-Athlete Banquet or the annual Honors Dinner.
2012 Honoree: Danny Anthrop of Lafayette Central Catholic High School
2013 Honorees: Cooper Fulmer of Winamac/Patrick Mackey of Lafayette Central Catholic High School
2014 Honoree: Jack Folkers of West Lafayette High School
2016 Honoree: Josh Turanchick of Oak Hill High School
2017 Honoree: Riley Lowder of Delphi High School
2018 Honoree: Tyler Trent of Purdue University
2019 Honoree: Cody Payne and Drew DeBoer of Lafayette Jefferson High School
2020 Honoree: Isaiah Harris of Bowman Leadership Academy
2021 Honoree: Patrick Kiefer of Winamac High School
2022 Honoree: Wade Peters of Carroll High School
2023: Ashlynn Brooke of Pioneer High School and Kendal Rider of Central Catholic High School
Wade Peters of Carroll High School received the Patrick Mackey Courage Award for overcoming a severe injury to compete in football and baseball his senior year.
Lafayette Central Catholic High School graduate and Purdue football player Danny Anthrop received the first annual Courage Award from the chapter for helping save the life of his uncle.
2014 Courage Award winner, Jack Folkers of West Lafayette High School, receives his award from Joe Mackey, father of the late Patrick Mackey, a former Central Catholic football player who died of leukemia.
Recipients of the Patrick Mackey Courage Award (from left to right) Kendall Rider, Lafayette Central Catholic High School, and Ashlynn Brooke, Pioneer High School were awarded by John Edwards at the National Football Foundation’s Joe Tiller Chapter Honors
Drew DeBoer (left) and Cody Payne (right) won the Courage Award in 2019 for the friendship they forged that broke social norms at Lafayette Jeff High School.
Tyler Trent received the Courage Award in 2018 for his heroic efforts in battling cancer while making a tremendous impact on Purdue's campus through The Exponent, Purdue Center for Cancer Research, and Purdue University Dance Marathon.
Riley Lowder of Delphi High School was awarded with the 2017 award for being a valuable member of the Delphi football team while battling autism.
Josh Turanchick (center) took home the Patrick Mackey Courage Award due to his football success at Oak Hill High School while battling club feet. Jack Folkers (right) was a recipient of the award in 2014 and a scholar-athlete finalist at the 2016 Honors D
