Sonora resident Joe Delgado competed in the Special Olympics World Games and walked away with two medals. Delgado won a gold medal in the 4x50 free relay and a silver medal in the 50 free while competing July 25 through Aug. 2 at the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. “It feels great,” said Delgado of winning a gold medal. “Getting the gold medal was the best feeling in the world. It was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had.” For Delgado, being a gold and silver medal winner in the biggest competitions of his life, was the perfect exclamation point for all of his hard work and dedication. “When you have worked that hard for something for so long - nine months of work- it all paid off,” Delgado said. Over 7,000 athletes and 3,000 coaches, representing 177 countries flocked to Los Angeles to compete in front of over 500,000 spectators. The World Games was the largest sports and humanitarian even in the world, and the biggest in Los Angeles since 1984.
Joe Marcus Johnson is a professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets and He now plays for the Miami Heat. Johnson averaged 16.3 points per game, third best on a team that entered the National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs seeded fourth in the Eastern Conference. He is one of the best NBA players from Arkansas (Joe Johnson (basketball).
Joseph pierce is an inventor who created the indoor snow machine. No mess just touchable white snow that leaves no water. Really it is an amazing piece of work. There is only one problem, well for now. That is that Joseph is only 9 years old. Joseph is walking to school with his two friends Emily and Alex in the land of Pictopia. Pictopia is a hidden underwater continent humans made after the icebergs melted and the ozone was destroyed.
Joe-Lewis, not a name heard often, in fact, if people know boxing, they think he is named after the famous boxer Joe Lewis. However he is not named after the boxer, he is named after our father, Lewis because his nickname was Joe-Lewis, hence Joe-Lewis’s name. His first name is unique just like his middle name, Brown after our great grandfather, Joe-Lewis’s middle name matches his hair and eyes. Small not a word used to describe his physical appearance anymore, Joe-Lewis is now five foot, six inches tall and slender, his baby fat gone, along with his chubby cheeks, now replaced with strong cheekbones. Not only did Joe-Lewis’s physical appearance change, but his wardrobe changed as well.
Joseph E. Lee was born in Philadelphia in 1849, he graduated from Howard University in 1873. He moved to Florida that same year and became the first African American lawyer in Jacksonville and in the state of Florida. He served in the House of Representatives from 1875 to 1879 and in the state Senate from 1881 to 1882. He was one of the most influential African American men in Florida through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was elected municipal judge of Jacksonville and was one of the first African Americans to have this honor. He educated free slaves at a college by the name of Edward Waters College. Lee worked as a public servant acting at various times as a state legislator, a lawyer, federal customs collector and educator.
She knows she's going to win the gold, she can just feel it. Mary Lou was battling with Ecaterina Szabo, they were both neck and neck. It was Mary Lou's last performance, the vault. She charged at the springboard at full speed and did her trick. She landed flawlessly, scoring a perfect 10. She had beaten Ecaterina Szabo by 0.05 of a point, winning the gold for America. In addition to the gold, Mary Lou had won two silver medals and two bronze medals.
Delcan Bagshaw was arrested on 07/09/2017 for being in position of 500 grams of methamphetamine and various stolen items. Bagshaw is a convicted drug addicted that has been know to be on methamphetamine for the past five years and has been in and out of rehab.
How many awards have you won? In my story “The Marble Champ” by Gary Soto the main character Lupe, has won many awards for school and academics, but never for anything athletic. In this story readers can learn that Lupe is very determined, some reasons to help prove my statement is correct are, Lupe has won many awards for academics, she is not athletic, and she trains very hard to win at marbles.
Jeffery Humble has established himself as one of the most active and respected community volunteers in Nashville and several other parts of the country. These philanthropic involvements range from volunteering for the Kentucky Junior Historical Society, hosting elaborate soirees and auctions to benefit Nashville CARES, assisting with the efforts of the Tennessee Equality Project (TEP), formerly serving in several leadership roles and functions for the Nashville Steering Committees and the Federal Club for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and even working with Feed My People in St. Louis, MI. His efforts, fueled by an entrepreneurial spirit and love of service, are starting to gain notice. The Center for Nonprofit Management (CNM) and The Tennessean
Shawn Johnson, sixteen years old at the time, was the reigning world champion in the all-around competition and was only the fourth American woman to win the event. She managed to win the all-around again the next year and went on to win that same event at the Olympic Trials just two weeks later. Not only is Shawn a gifted athlete, but she is an exceptional role model. Shawn Johnson impacted the world of gymnastics, by inspiring athletes and other gymnasts to follow their dreams, by standing up against haters, and by believing it is okay to fail.
"I was 8-years-old when the U. S. won gold at the 1980 Olympics,” NHL veteran Steve Konowalchuk told ESPN. “I remember watching the games and celebrating each victory. I worked very hard on my game as a result, hoping to one day be a part of something as special as winning an Olympic gold medal."
I felt my heart racing, heard my name being called, and suddenly, anxiety turned into elation. Within moments, I was walking across the international stage in Orlando in front of 16,000 people. I had won 5th at DECA Internationals!
One of my proudest achievements is being invited to participate in the National Hispanic Recognition Program. I have wanted to enter into this program since I first heard about it in 10th grade. It represents how hard I have worked hard over the years to be where I am now. Receiving this opportunity demonstrates that everything my parents have done for me has been worth it, and it still is. From the start, I felt that participating in this program would allow me to contribute to the Latino community, to show that there is more than what the stereotypes
Later, he tweeted that the experience was an exhilarating one for him and will forever be etched in this memory and the feeling was quite an incredible.
After my win, my team was lined up to congratulate me; I was the only member from our team to pin their opponent. The feeling of the referee raising my arm was one of the, if not, the best overwhelming feeling I've ever felt in my life. Knowing that I won that match on my own gave me great confidence that I was just as good as anyone
The feeling you get when you accomplish something, zealously even though it was very tough, is the best feeling ever. A big accomplishment for me that I achieved within this last year was joining the swim team. This may not be something that many people would find as an accomplishment but it was for me.