Winter Athletes of the Quarter: Edgren's Hawkins in a landslide; Kubasaki's Wood edges out Kinnick's Butts
Published: March 15, 2009
That Ashley Hawkins, Robert D. Edgren's junior basketball guard, would grab female Stars and Stripes Pacific winter season Athlete of the Quarter honors was almost a ironclad, mortal hammer lock. Be it here in SportsBlog Nation or via e-mail, she garnered a record flood tide of nominations.
But the boys honouree? Quite another story, as Kubasaki's 122-pound senior Scott Wood barely nosed out Nile C. Kinnick senior 135-pounder Cameron Butts.
Good arguments could be made for both matmen. Consider with me:
-- Butts not only went unbeaten, he went unscored upon in 21 bouts, was named Outstanding Wrestler in two in-season tournaments and handily repeated his 2008 DODDS-Pacific Far East Tournament gold medal.
-- Wood did lose three bouts, in higher-level in-season competition, but dug deep and found what it took to become just the second four-time Far East Tournament gold medalist, earn Outstanding Wrestler honours and pace the Dragons to a surprising individual freestyle team title, Kubasaki's Pacific-record 21st.
Bottom line: It says here, you can't go wrong with either pick.
