The Academy of USAWKS Wrestling* will be accepting nominations for the first annual USAWKS Wrestling Awards. The Awards presentation will coincide with the 2007 Academy Awards on February 25, at 7: OO PM Central. The Awards will be affectionately known as The Pete's in honor of Kansas first Olympic Gold Medallist at any sport, Peter Mehringer, the 1932 Olympic Gold Medal Winner in Freestyle wrestling at the weight of 192 pounds.
Individuals within the Kansas wrestling community and with interest in the Kansas wrestling community who use the usawks.com message boards are invited to nominate individuals for the various awards. The awards, in their initial year will include the following.
Now have 7 confirmed Judges, and nominations coming in by numerous people. If you have not pm'd me back and said, "Yes count me in.," or something like that, you are not on the judges list. If anyone can think of other worthy judges let me know. I have heard from 3 potential judges with a "maybe," and another 2 with a, "no I don’t have time." I understand that and am fine. I still need to hear from about 14 more. If anyone would like to judge, ask me, I'll tell you "yea" or "nea," and some may want to nominate others for judges. BTW, the person nominated as a judge has to be a usawks message board member. Here is the current list, remember, judges will narrow these down to 3, and then will pick a winner in each category. If we don't receive more than 3 nominations in any category, we will go with the nominations we have. Also, you can nominate as much as you want for each category.
Also for all kinds of reasons, I am sticking to the 2006 time frame only. Too many issues if you go beyond that, these are awards for 2006, we don't operate on a fiscal year, but a calendar year
Best Forum Group of the Year
High School
Kids Folkstyle
Most Controversial Post of the Year
189 finals opinion poll
The Most Fun Post of the Year
R.A.O.S.
Best Match of the Year Freestyle
Atticus Disney v. Alex Thomas (KS FS/Greco State)
Best Match of the Year Greco
Atticus Disney v. Alex Thomas (KS FS/Greco State)
Best Match of the Year Folkstyle
Jessie Strawn, Christ Sutton Kearns, Regional
Aaron Sweazy Returns to the Mat at Ft. Hays Open
Furches v. Cox (Kid's State finals)
Sutton-Kearn v. Strawn II (State finals)
Best New Member of the Year
Ricky Bobby
Best New Kids Wrestler of the Year
Cale Blazy Carroll Jr. Wrestling
Best High School Wrestler of the Year
Tyler Caldwell
Romero Cotton
Scott Elliott
Trent Cox
John Keller
Best Freestyle Wrestler of the Year
CJ Napier
Romero Cotton
Atticus Disney
Sharky Slyter
Nathan Furches
Best Greco Wrestler of the Year
Nathan Furches - Fargo Champion
Romero Cotton - Fargo Champion
Best All Round HS Wrestler of the Year
Romero Cotton
Nathan Furches
Best Moderator of the Year
USAWKS, Randy Hinderliter
Best Post Topic of the Year
Stay Positive, Kids Forum
Best Collegiate Wrestler of the Year
Cody Garcia
Curtis Chenoweth
Tanner Gardner
Tim Elliott
Joe Johnston
Best Sr level wrestler of the Year
Eric Akin
Zach Roberson
Daniel Cormier
Best Kids Wrestler of the Year
Daniel DeShazer
Best HS Tournament of the Year
Basehor-Linwood
Newton
Derby
KC CK Classic Tournament
Best Kids Tournament of the Year
Park City
Wichita Classic
Salina Tournament of Champions
Derby Open Novice
Best FS/Greco Tournament of the Year
State Tournament
The Most Informative Post of the Year
New Hydration Testing, High School Forum
Freshman HS Wrestler of the Year
Tyler Caldwell
Bo Beard
Nathan Furches
Trent Cox
The USAWKS Lifetime Achievement Award
Greg Grater
Skip Harrington
The USAWKS Kids Coach of the Year
Kramers from Goddard
The USAWKS HS Coaching Staff of the Year
Bishop Carroll
Wichita South
ANDOVER CENTRAL
The USAWKS Official of the Year
Kenny Taylor Jr.
Terry Hilton
Reuben Montoy
Bill Kausler
Kevin Hewitt
Steve Herman
Mark Anderson
The USAWKS Fan of the Year
Aaron Sweazy
Richard Salyer
Mike Furches
The USAWKS Female Wrestler of the Year
Randi Beltz
Beth Johnson
Morgen Ottesson
Media of the Year
No nominations as of yet
The USAWKS Person of the Year
Aaron Sweazy
Mike Marrow
Leanna Grater
Marcie Altman
Mike Furches
Mike Juby
The USAWKS School of the Year
Turner
Bishop Carroll
Norton
Saint Thomas Aquanis
The USAWKS Wrestler of the Year
Romero Cotton
Sharky Slyter
Nathan Furches
Tyler Caldwell
New list as of 11:30 AM 1/17/07
Nominations can be made by posting here, or via pm's. I will put together a broad selection of individuals to evaluate nominations and will then decide on the top three nominations in each category which will be announced no later than February 19. Among those nominations winners will be announced on February 25. Selection of each winner will be done by ballot, coming from no less than 9 bipartisan individuals. (note on individuals willing to help with the awards, contact me via pm, I will be contacting several individuals as well)
* - The USWKS Wrestling Academy is just a fun thing involving members of the USAWKS Wrestling Board. I just thought this would be fun and this in fact is not endorsed in any way by USAWKS Wrestling. It can be endorsed by those of us who are members and wish to participate though. I will make the commitment to print up certificates designating the award winners and mail them to the winner of each category.
Note: After this posting updates will be added at the end of the post which will include up to date additions.
