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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Hunter Bradley’s favorite sport is wrestling. The number of ribbons and trophies on display in his Hartselle home can attest to that fact.
The Barkley Bridge Elementary School second grader captured three state trophies in 2012.
He is the reigning state USA wrestling champion in the K-2, 50-pound division with a record of 33 wins and nine losses. He also won the Southern Youth Wrestling Organization (AYWO) state championship in the K-2, 55-lb. division for the second year in a row and took the 3rd-4th, 55-pound division title with an unbeaten record of 34 wins.
Hunter has three years of wrestling experience under his belt. He took up the sport at age five and has never looked back. He says he can’t imagine participating in any other sport.
Hunter has a private coach, Ken Clark, and is a member of the “Grappling with Character” Wrestling Club in Madison. He and fellow club members practice three days a week for two hours and compete in tournaments throughout Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, usually on Saturdays. Their season extends from October through May and practice sessions are conducted from August through June.
Dana Bradley said her son had opportunities to try other sports but opted to stick with wrestling.
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
For 33 years, area children have taken advantage of the Summer Run for Fun program in Collier County. The latest incarnation of the event wrapped up Monday night at the Barron Collier High School track, where more than 100 kids received trophies and T-shirts for participating this year.
“The focus are the kids,” said Mimi Watson, a past president of the Kiwanis Club of Naples and who has been helping organize the event since 2000. “As our saying goes, ‘Children are priority one.’ “The Run for Fun gives children the opportunity to be active and exercise during the summer. They really enjoy the competition and being rewarded.”
The Summer Run for Fun is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Naples, as it has been since 1996. Beginning in 1978, however, the program starts each year the first Monday after school lets out for the summer, and generally is held for eight weeks.
Because of construction at the Barron track this year, the Run for Fun was limited to seven weeks. Kids of all ages, and even some adults, compete in the shot put, discus, long jump. After the field events, then everyone competes in a mile run, which is broken down by age group.
In using the term “compete,” participants actually are measured against their previous performances rather than against each other. Kiwanis Club members serve as official timers, recording each child’s performance in the mile. Those times are then compared week to week to gauge each runner’s progress. This year more than 180 area youth registered for the programs. Most weeks draw more than 120 participants. Every kid who ran at least in five of the seven weeks received a trophy and a T-shirt on Monday.
Among the awards distributed Monday were two special trophies given to sisters Alicia and Valerie Fowski, who were recognized for participating each of the last 10 years. There were also 11 other special awards given out to outstanding athletes in the program. “We really enjoy seeing the kids run and them coming out each week,” said Watson, who also mentioned the involvement of the Gulf Coast Runners in putting on the events. “They recognize us and we recognize them.”
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Trophy News from India….
Payal Merja Wins Arithmetic Champion Trophy
Ahmedabad (PTI): Nine-year-old Payal Merja from Anand district has won the All Gujarat Mental Arithmetic Champion Trophy-2008, state officials said on Wednesday.
“Beating 4500 contestants Payal won the Champion trophy held at Vadodara. She solved 200 sums in just seven minutes, with few seconds to go before the exam got over,” Ramesh Merja, Payal’s father said.
The All Gujarat Mental Arithmetic Champion Trophy-2008 was held recently at Vadodara, and over 4500 contestants from across the state participated in the competition.
“If we ask Payal about the sum total of three digit sums, which involves fractions, subtractions, additions and mulitiplications, she answers them very swiftly,” he added.
A class five at Bavis Gam Vidhyalaya-Vallabh Vidhyanagar, Payal is quick in solving mathematical problems, and holds the distinction of being runners up in All India UC-MAS competitions,” Merja said.
According to Payal, concentration is the key to her success. She is an intelligent and gifted child with inclination towards science and maths.
Payal loves reading autobiographies of great leaders and towering personalities during leisure time, Merja said adding, “she is an intelligent and gifted child.”
Originally posted in The Hindu.
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Trophy News from Independent.com…
Trophy Atrophy
These Days Everyone Is A Winner
They’re the first things you see when you enter my son’s room, and the only things he packed when a wildfire neared our home.
They’re 10 golden, gleaming trophies, each touting him as a “winner” at T-ball, soccer, basketball. The most recent is a pewter mega-monument he earned playing football—on a team that lost every game by about 30 points.
While certainly a winner in my book, the kid has never once been on a championship team. Or even a mediocre one. Still, he has received more trophies than birthday cakes in his life. And he’s not alone.
Mini-athletes get trophies these days just for showing up. They’re de rigeur, as much a part of kids’ sports now as Gatorade and ghastly, costly team photos. At the end-of-season pizza party (also a given), every team member gets a sizable statuette on an engraved pedestal. Play-off teams probably get bigger ones; ahem, I, wouldn’t know.
“Claire got a soccer trophy even though she sat on her fanny and cried through every practice,” says a mom I know. (more…)
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Trophy News from Gaylord, Minnesota….
Berg is a Finalist for Gagliardi Trophy
Honors keep piling up for Sibley East graduate Jordan Berg. Last week, the Augsburg quarterback was named one of ten finalists for the Gagliardi Trophy which recognizes the most outstanding student-athlete in NCAA Division III football.
Named after legendary St. John’s University football coach John Gagliardi, the Gagliardi trophy is widely recognized as the premier individual award in Division III football. It honors excellence in athletics, academics and community service.
Berg, in just a three season college career, shattered many Augsburg records in becoming the top passing quarterback in the school’s history. The Auggies co-captain finished with a school best 8,777 passing yards (292 per game) and completed 796 of his 1,350 passes. Berg also set a new Augsburg record with 74 touchdown passes. (more…)
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Trophy News from Canada……
World Junior Trophies Swinging Through City
It’s a chance to share in a little Canadian pride.
The World Junior Championship Trophies will be in the city on Thursday, part of a tour of eastern Ontario cities.
Canada has won the World Junior title the last four years, and the trophies will be making stops at 16 RBC branches during the next three weeks.
While in Cornwall, the trophies will also visit some local schools where students will be provided with free Cornwall Colts tickets courtesy of RBC. (more…)
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Trophy News from the Lancashire Telegraph………
Rhyddings Business and Enterprise School head leaves at ‘pinnacle of career’
RHYDDINGS Business and Enterprise School headteacher Barry Burke gave his farewell prize night speech last night.
Mr Burke became head of the Oswaldtwistle school in 1999. In 2005 it was named as one of the fifth most improved schools in the country.
At the end of this term Mr Burke will leave to take up the post at a new inner city academy in Manchester.
Mr Burke told patrents and pupils: “Tonight is the last time I’ll speak to you as headteacher of Rhyddings Business and Enterprise School.
“As you know, I’ve been given the opportunity to take some of the ‘Rhyddings Magic’ and plant it in a new school in Manchester.
“So you see, it’s really your fault I’m leaving at the end of this term.
“After all, you’ve demonstrated to the world that Rhyddings’ students improve their performance year on year with your year group achieving the best all round set of results ever, and that makes me look good!
“And just like Joe Calzaghe’s decision to ‘quit’ while he’s at the top, I’m able to leave Rhyddings at the pinnacle of my teaching career – all because of your outstanding success.”
Mr Burke thanked pupils, staff, governors and parents and added: “I’ll take my Rhyddings ‘snapshots’ with me to make me happy when times get tough and call on the support of my friends when I inevitably meet those apparently insurmountable obstacles.
“Standing on the shoulders of giants, like those in Rhyddings, has made me successful but, more importantly, happy.”
>> PRIZEWINNERS
100 per cent attendance: One year, Katie Collins, Kirsty Evans; five years, Daniel Duckett; Art and Design: Aqsa Munir; Business Studies: Daniel Duckett; Engineering: Liam Koral; English Language: Farheen Mohammed; English Literature: Nafisa Tahir; French: Rebecca Entwistle; Geography: Katie Collins; Health and social care: Leanne Slattery; History: Farheen Mohammed; ICT: Kirsty Ormerod; Mathematics: Daniel Duckett; Media Studies: Sameena Waheed; Performing Arts: Emma Ward; Physical Education: Danny Wilkinson; Religious Education: Zisham Abid; Science: Rebecca Entwistle.
Technology (Catering): Katie Collins; Graphics: Louise Pike; Product Design: Aqsa Munir; Technology, resistant materials: Drew Owens; Textiles: Zakkeha Begum; Travel and Tourism: Louise Pike; Urdu: Zisham Abid.
School Trophies: Moore Trophy for service to the school: Mark Braysford; Governors’ Trophy for service to the community, Annabel Johnson; Rhyd-dings Trophy for effort, Moinuddin Anwar; Banks Trophy for achievement, Emma Ward; Mim’s Trophy for extra-curricular perfor-mance, Christopher O’Connor; Rhyddings Trophy for outstanding academic achievement, Rebecca Entwistle.
Originally posted by Catherine Pye
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Trophy News from Granby, CO
The Panthers of Middle Park High charged to victory in their first home football game of the season, beating Clear Creek’s Golddiggers 30-12 on Friday night.
The win was an excellent recovery for the Panthers, who fell 31-3 to Estes Park’s Bobcats during the season-opener the previous weekend.
“We had a great week of preparation to get ready for Clear Creek, who has a great passing game,” said Middle Park’s coach Marc Loberg. “Everybody on our team, especially our younger players, worked hard to get our varsity ready for this one. This is a win we can build off of.”
Friday’s victory also regained the Mountain Man Trophy for the Panthers, who lost it last year to the Golddiggers. Middle Park has now won the trophy four of the five years of its history.
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Trophy News From York, Nebraska
Add another piece of hardware to the growing York High tennis trophy case. York High School head tennis coach Josh Budler was recently awarded the 2007-08 NSAA Tennis Coach of the Year award. The honor is Budler’s first. Budler won the award after leading the squad to the Class B state championship last season.
Despite his recent success with the Dukes, Budler is fairly new to the sport.
“I went to Concordia University in 1999 to play soccer,” he explained. “I made some great friends that were on the tennis team. After playing some with them, they talked me into trying the sport out. I haven’t looked back since.”
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Trophy News from ESPN
Kobe Bryant recently said he would rather win an Olympic gold medal than the NBA championship. Was he merely saying what was politically correct before the Olympics? Did he say it only because it sounds better than “I would rather win an Olympic gold medal than lose the NBA championship”? Or does an Olympic gold medal really mean more to him than a professional championship?
Only Kobe knows for sure but what about you? What sporting trophy means the most to you? Of all the things you could win in sports, which would you choose? A Super Bowl ring? The Masters green jacket? The Heisman Trophy? The Cy Young Award? A World Series? A Final Four? There are dozens upon dozens of championships and awards to win, but which would you most want to claim?
Here are a few quick caveats on my rankings:
The form of the award matters. Trophies top plaques, and the bigger the better. After all, you want the damn thing to look impressive in your trophy case.
Names count, too. Awards named in honor of a person (such as the Cy Young) just resonate more than those that, while prestigious, are named something boring and generic like the “MVP award.”
Durability counts. Generally, the longer the award has been around, the more it means.
Originally Written by Jim Caple for ESPN
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