The 10-week season will have the top 16 teams in each region qualifying for the playoffs.
Conference officials agreed to $150 per event in football and boys/girls basketball.
Armstrong swam at West Virginia and is currently a junior at Ohio State.
The OHSAA has agreed to a deal with the Pro Football Hall of Fame to play the finals in Canton for the next three seasons.
The start of the final games moved to Friday.
Many of Tuscarawas County's top softball stars made the list.
Play was suspended during the tournament's first game on Thursday.
Coaches Jeff Fondriest (Dover baseball) and Karly Ross (New Phila softball) took Coach of the Year honors, while N.P.'s Elliott Warner was named the tennis POTY.