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Founded in 2013, the Pop Warner league Titletown Titans have lived up to the tradition of its namesake.

Titletown Titans founder James Gatlin was recently notified that four of the 2014 Titans — Ty Bridges, Canyon Hebb, Kelan Hill and Jalen Yearby — were named Little Scholars for their classroom performance.

The Pop Warner All-American Program requires a minimum 96 percent grade point average to apply. Student-athletes must submit school issued grade reports for the entire year, complete an application, provide any commendations or awards for the year and submit community service participation details. A final score is calculated for each student that consists of up to 100 points (85 percent) for the student’s grades for the prior school year, along with up to 18 points (15 percent) awarded for the attached addendum sheet of activities and achievements.

Once all applications are processed and verified, Pop Warner determines National first-team All-Americans, comprised of 35 football and 35 cheer participants per grade; National second-team All-Americans and National Honorable Mention scholars. The Little Scholars Program received more than 8,000 applications this year for this distinct commendation.

Gatlin has announced that Bridges and Hebb were named National second-team All-American Scholars and Hill and Yearby were named National Honorable Mention Scholars.

According to Pop Warner’s website, each year, the most academically accomplished Pop Warner kids compete for Academic All-American status. This process begins at the association level and up through each of the eight Pop Warner regions to the national level. In 2013 more than 425,000 kids participated in Pop Warner. 

Pop Warner hosts an awards program each year to celebrate the accomplishments of our participants selected on a national level. This year’s Scholar banquet will be in San Diego on May 20-23. Pop Warner is proud to have awarded nearly one million dollars in scholarships in just 17 years and believes that the standards it has set gives these children a sense of responsibility and an appreciation for academics and athletics that will help them develop later on in life.