Montgomery County Endurance Athlete of the Year Awards
Bill Dwyer and I have kept this under wraps now for awhile; however, we're going to be moving forward with it under our Friends of the Running Community, L.L.C. banner.
It is the 2008 Montgomery County Endurance Athlete of the Year Awards.
Even though neither one of us live in Montgomery County, we both are doing things - and love doing them, by the way - to attempt to contribute to the growth and success of running and multisports in the County through 1.) my writing for the Courier, 2.) Bill's coaching under various entities (Team in Training, Luke's Beat Program, Woodlands Fit and perhaps Power In Motion soon) and 3.) our involvement in The Woodlands Running Club.
We will create a nomination process for late November and early December that will take into account an athlete's performances from January 1 to that point of the year. (For multisports, it will be complete, while runners' body of work will basically be complete at that point.)
We will gather together a host of media panelists to decide the winners from a list of semifinalists. (Bill and I may pare down the list of nominees to semifinalists; however, we will not have a vote because of the many constituencies that we are accountable to.)
Our plan includes an award ceremony at Town Hall Texas on Saturday evening, January 13, 2009 -- one week before the Chevron Houston Marathon and its affiliated events.
We've extended an invitation to Chevron Houston Marathon race director Brant Kotch to be our guest speaker.
We plan to recognize individuals in the following categories:
+ Road Racing (Youth, Open, Masters, Veterans; Men and Women - 8)
+ Ultra/Trail Running (Open, Masters, Veterans; Men and Women - 6)
+ Multisports (Youth, Open, Masters, Veterans; Men and Women - 8)
+ High School Track and Field (Boys and Girls - 2)
+ High School Cross Country (Boys and Girls - 2)
+ Coach of the Year (Running/Multisports - 1)
+ Volunteer of the Year (Running/Multisports - 1)
We won't necessarily shun a sponsor or sponsors, but we will not commercialize these awards. This will be about the athletes, not local businesses. The ideal situation would be is if we had somebody come up to one of us and said "How can we help?" Then we would make sure that the business would certainly get appropriate recognition for their contribution.
We basically don't want to put ourselves in a position that a club or a group would have an expectation that we would choose one of their athletes because of a contribution. That's why neither one of us wants to have a vote.
Otherwise, we've already scoped this out and feel that it is something that we can fund between the two of us.
Listening to: "Lucky Arms" - Jason Allen (Great lyrics ...)
It is the 2008 Montgomery County Endurance Athlete of the Year Awards.
Even though neither one of us live in Montgomery County, we both are doing things - and love doing them, by the way - to attempt to contribute to the growth and success of running and multisports in the County through 1.) my writing for the Courier, 2.) Bill's coaching under various entities (Team in Training, Luke's Beat Program, Woodlands Fit and perhaps Power In Motion soon) and 3.) our involvement in The Woodlands Running Club.
We will create a nomination process for late November and early December that will take into account an athlete's performances from January 1 to that point of the year. (For multisports, it will be complete, while runners' body of work will basically be complete at that point.)
We will gather together a host of media panelists to decide the winners from a list of semifinalists. (Bill and I may pare down the list of nominees to semifinalists; however, we will not have a vote because of the many constituencies that we are accountable to.)
Our plan includes an award ceremony at Town Hall Texas on Saturday evening, January 13, 2009 -- one week before the Chevron Houston Marathon and its affiliated events.
We've extended an invitation to Chevron Houston Marathon race director Brant Kotch to be our guest speaker.
We plan to recognize individuals in the following categories:
+ Road Racing (Youth, Open, Masters, Veterans; Men and Women - 8)
+ Ultra/Trail Running (Open, Masters, Veterans; Men and Women - 6)
+ Multisports (Youth, Open, Masters, Veterans; Men and Women - 8)
+ High School Track and Field (Boys and Girls - 2)
+ High School Cross Country (Boys and Girls - 2)
+ Coach of the Year (Running/Multisports - 1)
+ Volunteer of the Year (Running/Multisports - 1)
We won't necessarily shun a sponsor or sponsors, but we will not commercialize these awards. This will be about the athletes, not local businesses. The ideal situation would be is if we had somebody come up to one of us and said "How can we help?" Then we would make sure that the business would certainly get appropriate recognition for their contribution.
We basically don't want to put ourselves in a position that a club or a group would have an expectation that we would choose one of their athletes because of a contribution. That's why neither one of us wants to have a vote.
Otherwise, we've already scoped this out and feel that it is something that we can fund between the two of us.
Listening to: "Lucky Arms" - Jason Allen (Great lyrics ...)
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