He participated in eight state tournaments in his chosen sports -- basketball and golf.
He won three state titles (two in basketball and the golf state title last fall) and had three other second-place finishes. He finished fourth in golf on one other occasion.
The Coalfield Conference recognized this, too, at its Coalfield Conference Awards Ceremony last week at Tamarack.
Muscari was awarded the conference's special achievement award. The award is not given out every year, only in special circumstances.
"I think his body of work speaks for itself," said his dad, Mike Muscari, who accepted on behalf of his son, who was on a graduation trip at the beach. "We're proud of his accomplishments."
Muscari will be attending Furman on a golf scholarship this fall.
The Coalfield Conference also named its Impact Players of the Year.
The Class AA Male Impact Player of the Year was Sherman's Jacob Rollo, a four-sport standout for the Tide. The AA female winner was Wyoming East's Selina Simmons.
In Class A the male athlete was Fayetteville's Nich Carte and the female athlete was Tara Havens of Montcalm.
"I've been here the last three years," Rollo said. "It means a lot to be selected.
"I think I performed pretty well in all my sports."
Rollo will attend Concord where he'll play football and run track.
Simmons was a three-sport standout for the Warriors, playing volleyball, basketball and softball.
"I didn't know that I would win it," she said. "There are a lot of great athletes who were deserving. Hallie Gunnoe of Summers County is a great athlete and Jade (McDaniel, from James Monroe) is great, too."
She will play basketball and softball at Bluefield State.
Carte started this season the way he's ending it. In the state tournament.
Fayetteville will be playing in the state baseball tournament Friday. He also went to the golf and basketball state tournaments.
"If somebody told me I'd go to three state tournaments this year before the year I wouldn't have believed it," Carte said. "It means a lot because a lot of great players have won this award."
Havens was a standout in three sports at Montcalm.
"It means a lot," she said. "I've been playing sports since I was eight years old. It says something about our school and it says something about my teammates. You can't win an award like this without your teammates."
She is the first athlete from Montcalm to win an impact player of the year award.
Each school was represented by a male and female athlete of the year.
Those athletes were: Bluefield, Jake Lilly and Diane Shahan; Fayetteville, Carte and Shandi Myles; Greenbrier West, Justin Manspile and Stephanie Boothe, Iaeger; Lawrence Morgan and Ali Carlen; Independence, Shawn McKinney and Kayla Pysz; James Monroe, John Ballangee and Jade McDaniel; Liberty, Jamie Newman and Anna Mireya Cangemi; Meadow Bridge, DeVonte Petitt and Cayli Bolen; Midland Trail, Noah Sparks and Cari Minter; Montcalm, Jabe Meadows and Havens; Mount Hope, Kyle James and Talisa Smith; Oak Hill, Dustin Nuckels and Neaire Miller; PikeView, Jordan Weitzel and Tara Hazelwood; Pocahontas County, Jimmy Wiley and Joy Walkup; Richwood, Dustin Brown and Paige Hacker; Shady Spring, Adam Perry and Kristin Turschmann; Sherman, Rollo and Madison Bowman; Summers County, Kyle Newcom and Hallie Gunnoe; Webster County, Grant Perrine and Jessica Vucich; Westside, Travis Whitten and Brittany Cook; and Wyoming East, Muscari and Simmons.
In addition, coaches were honored by the Conference.
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