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WETUMPKA , AL – The Board of Administrators of the Joe Sewell Memorial Award and John Sewell Memorial Scholarship have launched the names of winner.

The general winners are Courtney Sides, of Elmore County Excessive Faculty and Gavin Baxley of Wetumpka Excessive Faculty.

Different senior awards had been introduced to:

Boy’s Management Award – Colton Wayne Wheeler of Holtville Excessive

Boy’s Tutorial Award – Taylor Gunn of Wetumpka Excessive.

Boy’s Church, Neighborhood and Character Awared – Samuel Allen Silas of Holtville Excessive.

Boy’s Athletic Award – Matthew Payton Stephenson of Elmore County Excessive.

Lady’s Management Award – Becca Worrell of Wetumpka Excessive.

Lady’s Tutorial Award – Kiley Sisson of Wetumpka Excessive.

Lady’s Church, Neighborhood and Character Award – Allye Justiss of Elmore County Excessive.

Lady’s Athletic Award – Emma Renee Chavers of New Life Christian Academy.

The award program was established in 2005 to acknowledge excellent highschool senior athletes in Elmore County who’ve persistently represented the best beliefs of Christian management.  Every year, one male and one feminine senior from Elmore County excessive faculties are chosen for the highest honor – the Joe Sewell Memorial Award and $3000 John Sewell Scholarship.  Female and male class winners are additionally chosen for lecturers, athletics, management, and church, group, and character, with every class winner receiving a $1000 scholarship. The Joe Sewell Memorial Award is the one program of its type within the River Area that presents scholarship cash along side the awards to total and class winners.

Moreover, the award serves to honor the legacy of Joe Sewell, a local of the Titus group who established a really profitable baseball profession within the Majors from 1920-1933 and was inducted into the Nationwide Baseball Corridor of Fame in 1977.  Sewell’s athletic ability was obvious as he holds two Main League Baseball’s data together with the lifetime report for fewest strikeouts in his 14 yr profession with solely 114 in 7,132 at-bats.  His excellent character and management are qualities that function the inspiration of this award.  His cousin John Sewell, for whom the highest scholarships are named, beloved sports activities and spent a lot of his free time teaching and serving to younger folks.  Each males left a legacy in Elmore County that youth and adults alike can emulate.

This yr’s nineteenth Annual Joe Sewell Memorial Award banquet was Tuesday, Could 2nd, at 6:30 pm on the Wetumpka Civic Middle. 

This yr’s keynote speaker was Abby Lutzenkirchen Forristall. She is the Director of Occasions and Alternatives with the Lutzie 43 Basis. The Basis, created to honor the reminiscence of Abby’s older brother Philip Lutzenkirchen, exists to cut back the variety of distracted driving incidents. Previous to becoming a member of the Lutzie 43 Basis, Abby was a program officer on the Arthur M. Clean Household Basis the place she managed the work of associate-led grant making for the Atlanta Falcons Youth Basis, Atlanta United Basis, and the PGA TOUR Superstore Neighborhood Fund. Abby graduated from the College of Alabama with a bachelor’s diploma in Public Relations. A four-year starter and member of the Crimson Tide girls’s soccer staff, she was named captain her senior yr and was named the 2015 SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Yr. Abby is married to Miller Forristall, former UA tight finish and present New Orleans Saint. A restricted variety of advance banquet tickets can be found on the market to the general public at Eventbrite.com, a web-based ticketing web site. Tickets is not going to be accessible on the door.

The Joe Sewell Board of Administrators expresses their appreciation for the constant generosity of the sponsors whose contributions enable the awarding of this system’s scholarships, in addition to the chance to have fun these college students’ accomplishments with a proper award occasion annually. For extra info concerning the award and scholarship program, go to http://joesewellaward.com

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