Jan 6, 2010 9:53:08 AM

Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell and former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow are among the many individuals who will be honored for their contributions to intercollegiate athletics at next week's Honors Celebration at the NCAA Convention in Atlanta.

Mitchell will be given the Association's highest honor – the Theodore Roosevelt Award – for his decades-long career as a public servant. University of Florida quarterback Tebow, meanwhile, is among the collection of outstanding student-athletes being honored as the Today's Top VIII.

The NCAA will also honor Richard Phillips, a former basketball student-athlete at Massachusetts Maritime, and Roxana Saberi, a former soccer player at Concordia-Moorhead, with the 2010 NCAA Award of Valor.

Phillips, captain of a merchant vessel, surrendered himself to ensure his crew's safety after pirates hijacked their ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean. Saberi was working as a journalist in Iran when she was arrested and jailed for several months.

Click on the links below for summaries of all the award winners for 2010. Click here for more information about the NCAA honors program.

• Theodore Roosevelt Award
• Today's Top VIII
• Silver Anniversary Award
• Inspiration Award
• Award of Valor
• NCAA President's Gerald R. Ford Award (to be awarded during the opening business session)