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Bennie Su, 17, received high marks in the classroom and on the field during his four years at Michael J. Petrides High School. He also managed to find time to volunteer as a swim coach.

"I think my biggest drive is to stay motivated and to just keep pushing to be the best I could," said Su.

Su was one of 24 NY1/Health Plus scholar athletes honored Tuesday at the Time Warner Center. Each student received a $2,000 college scholarship – honoring a commitment to school, sports and service.

"It definitely means a lot to me, because I know there is going to be a tremendous debt after college," said NY1/Health Plus Scholar Athlete Ben Antoine. "This is definitely helping out with it."

NY1 Executive Sports Producer Marc Weingarten helped launch the scholarship 10 years ago. Since then, more than 300 high school seniors have been recognized and about $500,000 in scholarship money has been awarded.

"When we started 10 years ago, those kids now who've gotten those scholarships are now probably leaders in their communities, in the real world," Weingarten said. "And they are the examples they can set for the kids who are getting the scholarships today."

Health Plus has supported the scholarship for the past eight years.

"For us its to realize that we have children, young people in New York City, who are so talented, who are so hardworking, who are really excellent in all these things that they do," said Kathryn Soman of Health Plus. "And it just gives us a great chance, all of us, to recognize that there a lot of young people out there doing amazing things."

Among those students is Ben Antoine, who serves as captain of the gymnastics team at Long Island City High School, while maintaining grades in the high 90s. The 17-year-old honoree is headed to Carnegie Mellon University this fall to pursue electrical engineering.

"It was definitely tough trying to toggle the sports and the academics at the same time, but I definitely had fun doing both," he said.

And, he says, along the way he learned important lessons for continued success.