Indiana Pacers basketball player Myles Turner and a former Central Junior High student in Euless, Texas makes a grand entrance to the Central Junior High School gymnasium in Euless on Thursday, February 11, 2016. Myles presented the inaugural eponymous Player of the Year Award to Jackson Kapellusch, a 7th grader and gave him tickets to the Pacers and Mavericks basketball game. The Myles Turner Player Of the Year award is a cumulative award given to the top student athlete in basketball who best exemplifies the character traits presented on the award application. The requirements consist of the student athlete maintaining academic eligibility, a high character, being a positive role model on and off the court, and leading his team in at least one statistical category.