Sean Kennedy, adopted by the Pirate football team, won for inspiration. The time to break out the Kleenex may have been when the Above-and-Beyond award winners were announced. And wearing heels, Lakewood Ranch’s Ladhazhia Williams, the winner in girls basketball, appeared taller than anyone there. Recognized in boys basketball, Caldwell turned on stage to the crowd and raised his arms. Riverview’s AJ Caldwell was an exception. Accustomed to starring at their respective athletic venues, many appeared nervous walking onto the Robarts stage to accept their awards, merely wanting to reach the other side. The student-athletes honored already have a head start on that. “And focus, for me, is simply this: Follow One’s Course Until Successful.” The buzz may have been greater for last year’s guest speaker, Tim Tebow, but Brooks’ message was more direct and on point. “Does that turn good into great? I think a few more things go into it, but I challenge the student-athletes today to find that extra, whatever it is, in your respective field.” “I always looked for that little extra,” he told them. It was for the 21 student-athletes who took the stage at Robarts, accepted their awards, then posed for pictures with Brooks, who seemed to thoroughly enjoy the interaction.
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“If you laugh, you think, you cry, that’s a full day. Sound familiar? They were thoughts uttered by Jimmy Valvano during his famous speech at the 1993 ESPY Awards, less than two months before his death. Thinking, laughing, being moved to tears. Perhaps even from the eyes of teens too cool for such displays of emotion. The third is deaf, yet plays on the Lakewood Ranch High girls basketball team.Ī time for tears.
Another, a sufferer of Down syndrome, has become the unofficial mascot of the Braden River High football team. One spent part of her childhood homeless. Later, three area students were recognized in the categories of inspiration, determination and passion. He relayed the story of a wise-guy fifth-grade student named Derrick getting whipped by his father in front of his classmates. Fixate on your goals and be relentless in achieving them. The occasion was the second annual Best of HT Preps awards banquet at Robarts Arena, and the former Tampa Bay Bucs and Hall of Fame linebacker was its guest speaker.Īs hard-hitting as Brooks was on the football field, the message he delivered to the area’s top athletes packed a similar punch. Then why throughout Tuesday night did I continue hearing Jimmy V?
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