Archive for October, 2009
5 Finalists For Honda Broderick Cup Announced
The Collegiate Women Sports Awards announced last June 20 the five finalists for its annual top distinction the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. By a vote from among over 1000 NCAAmember institutions the finalists were chosen. The winner will be named at a special press conference on June 25 in New York and will receive the prestigious 2007 HondaBroderick Cup.
The cup is cosponsored by Honda Motor Co. maker of quality Honda car bra while American Honda Motor Co. Inc. will host the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Program.
This years 5 finalists were chosen from previously announced Honda Sports Award winners in 12 different NCAAsanctioned sports. They are Monica Abbott University of Tennessee softball; Paula Infante University of Maryland field hockey; Heather OReilly University of North Carolina soccer; Candace Parker University of Tennessee basketball; and Sarah Pavan University of Nebraska volleyball.
Standing 63 Monica Abbott is a lefthander who basically holds every career and singleseason softball pitching record at the University of Tennessee. During her senior year she established the singleseason strikeout record of 724. And through leading the nation with a 505 overall record plus a 0.68 ERA and 29 solo shutouts in 358.1 innings she ended her 2007 season and senior year. Abbott is a fourtime NFCA AllAmerican with NCAA Division I career records for wins 189 appearances 253 strikeouts 2440 shutouts 112 and innings pitched 1448.0.
Paula Infante is a native of Santiago Chile who is a senior midfielder/defender. She brought her team to its second straight NCAA title this year and earned First Team AllAmerican and First Team AllNCAA Tournament for four consecutive times. For the second time she was named Atlantic Coast Conference ACC Defensive Player of the Year. Infante also got the AllMid Atlantic Region title. This season she had 12 goals five of which were gamewinning goals and garnered 30 points. She finished her college career with 58 career goals and 139 points. Moreover she was also named AllACC and AllRegion for four consecutive times and is a twotime winner of the Honda Sports Award.
A senior forward Heather OReilly was her teams captain to an NCAA College Cup title this year. She was named Most Outstanding Offensive Player of the tournament for the second time. She is ranked as the third highest scorer in NCAA womens soccer tournament history with 15 goals 14 assists and 44 points. For the second time she was a Hermann Trophy finalist this year. OReilly is also the Soccer America National Player of the Year and a threetime nominee of the Honda Sports Award. She ended college with 59 goals and 49 assists for 167 points.
Candace Parker is a 6foot4 sophomore who was recently awarded as the John R. Wooden Player of the Year and 2007 NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player. She got the distinction of being named both as the SEC Player of the Year and the Basketball Writer’s Association Player of the Year. The youngest recipient of the State Farm Wade Trophy Player of the Year award Parker has scored double digits in every NCAA Tournament game she has played with 19.6 points 9.8 rebounds and 2.8 blocked shots per game this season as the averages. Moreover she was named Firstteam AllAmerica and the Dayton Regional MOP.
Sarah Pavan is a 65 junior from Kitchener Ontario who brought the Huskers to a 331 record the schools third national title and the teams 1 NCAA ranking for the entire season last year. She was the NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player and AVCA National Player of the Year 2006 and a recipient of ESPN: The Magazines 2006 Academic AllAmerican of the Year with a 4.00 GPA in Biochemistry. Other highlights in her career include averaging 5.10 per game that led the Big 12 in kills and marked her 10th in the nation for kills.
Other nominees were Duke Universitys Amanda Blumenherst for golf; Northwestern Universitys 3time Honda Sports Award winner Kristen Kjellman for lacrosse; the University of Georgias Courtney Kupets for gymnastics; the University of Georgias Kara Lynn Joyce for swimming; Texas Techs Sally Kipyego for crosscountry Auburn Universitys Kerron Stewart for track and field; and the University of Miamis Audra Cohen for tennis.
HondaBroderick Cup winner for 2006 was soccer superstar Christine Sinclair of the University of Portland.
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Where To Find Public Car Auctions
If you’re anything like me finding a car auction open to the public in your city can make you want to just head on over to the dealership and call it a day. But there are a couple of easy ways you can find an auto auction near you while keeping your sanity intact. Some of them will make you say duh!
1. Look in the newspaper: This is a good place to start. Depending on your city different car auction houses list upcoming sales in the “announcements” section throughout the year. The only downside is that they are only advertised every couple of month and everybody and their mom knows about them meaning more competition and less savings.
2. Surf the web: Taking your search online is the next best thing to do when you have no luck with the newspaper strategy. If you’re a computer geek you’ll be able to find a couple of car auction sites. Sometimes they’ll be near you sometimes they’ll be 100 miles away and I doubt you want to go that far.
3. Ask a friend: Hey you never know what type of things you can find out just by asking.
4. Join a car auction site: If you’re lazy want more than just one car auction location to choose from or just plain don’t have time to do the first three things your easiest way out is to join a car auction site. Once you’re a member you’ll have hundreds of auctions at your fingertips to choose from. They do charge a fee of course but you won’t be able to find that many auctions on your own as most of them are private and not advertised to the general public. That means better deals for you. At first I was like forget that! But after having no luck with the newspaper online or with friends I finally gave in and kicked myself for being so cheap after I learned about at least a dozen more listings in my city alone I could’ve been going to.
So depending on how you feel you can find car auctions open to the public by looking through the newspaper online asking friends or take the easy way out like me and join a car auction website.
Did you know you can save a couple extra hundred by going to car auctions open to the public that are listed on a membership site? No kidding!
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