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Show Award Time Qy For Athletes If By DAVE YVIGHAM Awards were given out this past week at the high schools with the top athletes honored. AT BOUNTIFUL High the only top award is the Hale Award which is given to the outstanding male athlete, usually a senior. This year Mike Woodbury won. Mike played football, basketball and track for the Braves and is headed to BYU for football. At Viewmont they go beyond the athletic field and pick what they term as exemplary athletes. This includes scholarship, leadership and athletic ability. To be elibible, an athlete must have at least a 3.0 gpa. The male winner was Robert Yancey, a swimmer and water polo player. The female vote was a tie with Paula Johnson and JoyLynn Williams both being honored. WOODS CROSS also picks the top athletes and this year they selected a senior and sophomore. Senior Kevin Nitzell won the boys award while sophomore Maren Hansen won for the girls. Kevin is heading to USU for football while Maren w ill remain at Woods Cross. Speaking of awards, did you notice that Darrell Griffith of the Jazz won the NBA Rookie of the Year award. For this Darrell received a $25,000 bonus from the Jazz. It was in his contract. They pointed but that he led the rookies in scoring but failed to mention he also led them in shots taken, shots missed, mis-sed, prayer shots taken, prayer shots missed, minutes mi-nutes played, minutes played without guarding anyone any-one and turnovers. JUST WISH someone who played a little better team ball could have won. 1 don't blame Darrell for gunning the ball when $25,000 is on the line. David Draper, the ex-Woods Cross pitcher, is back in town and had a sad tale to tell. Seems like the club he was with, Utah Technical College, coached by ex-Viewmont star Dave Nelson had a little problem prob-lem with a player. Draper reports that going into the final weekend of league play his club was only one game behind the leaders, Dixie, and had a good shot at w inning all four of their remaining games and going onto the playoffs. Dave Nelson is clear, he called the college from which the records came and was told the guy was legit. What happened was the guy took 12 hours but failed three of them. They gave Dave the guys GPA over the phone for nine hours, they should have counted the other three which made him ineligible. The thing that gets you wondering is why the kid didn't say anything, after all you have to figure he knew which classes he failed and what his GPA was. WOODS CROSS named a new football coach this past week when they named Coach Eldrocher from Highland to take over the Cats. The Ram man was a varsity assistant in football and the head baseball coach at the school. This marks the second man outside the district to be named a head coach with Viewmont naming Mark Pearce several months ago. Pearce comes from Bear River High. SF.EMS TO me the track and field coaches need to put their heads together and come up w ith a different date for their state meet. Most of them complain that the fast athletes are playing baseball and that their, state tournament finals are the same Saturday as the track. Seems logical to move the track and get these athletes running. Now is the time for all these high school athletes to take it easy for the summer right? Wrong. Now they get to go to football camps, basketball camps and play in the summer baseball leagues. It's no wonder they can't find employment when they're gone most of the time. |