As the Vikings gear up for an action-packed rivalry week, it was announced by Niles North Athletic Director, Brett Bildstein that Viking star center Hunter Gawon will be honored pregame of Tuesday´s matchup against 25th-ranked Evanston.

Gawron reached this milestone last December against Maine West, and joins Nick Williams, Malachi Nix, Abdel Nader, Crishawn Cook, Damaria Franklin, Aquan Smart, Jalen Butler, Yaris Irby and Reid Olson as the tenth member of the Niles North 1000 point club in just two and a half years on varsity.

Gawron has been involved with Niles North athletics since his Freshman year, starting off playing baseball, but since his sophomore year, he’s been a force on the court, but also has been recognized off it.

¨[Gawron] came in as a baseball player, he’d probably be outstanding at track or football if he chose to. But he has devoted himself to basketball, and obviously you see from [scoring 1000 points] it has paid off…I would say one of the biggest things I´ve seen is [that]  Hunter has a huge growth in maturity and leadership,¨AD Bildstein said.

The ceremony will take place tomorrow in the main gym at around thirty minutes before tip off at 6:30 pm, followed by the varsity game against Evanston.