Following Cathedral's 14th IHSAA football state championship victory on Friday night, Irish senior offensive lineman Cooper Koers was awarded the Phil N. Eskew Mental Attitude Award in Class 5A Football. Koers becomes the 9th Cathedral player honored with the award.
- 1973 - Dave Zapp
- 1991 - Marcus Thorne
- 1996 - Durriell Brown
- 1999 - Matt Hasbrook
- 2006 - Bobby Powers
- 2010 - Connor Barthel
- 2011 - Jacob Bailey
- 2014 - Jared Thomas
- 2021 - Cooper Koers
The football mental attitude award is named for Eskew, who was the Indiana High School Athletic Assoication commissioner in 1973 when the football state tournament began. Koers will attend Princeton University next fall to study medicine and play football.