Just a day after writing about how Tim Tebow was a finalist for the Sullivan Award, he is now officially the winner! Was there ever any doubt?
NEW YORK — While the Florida basketball team was losing to Massachusetts in the National Invitation Tournament on Tuesday night, Gator quarterback Tim Tebow was winning a couple of miles away.
Continue to 2nd paragraph In the same city where he was named the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy in December, Tebow was named the winner of the Sullivan Award at the New York Athletic Club.
He joins swimmer Tracy Caulkins (1978) as the only UF athlete to win the award, which goes to the nation’s top amateur athlete. Past winners of the award, which is given out by the Amateur Athletic Union, include Bobby Jones, Wilma Rudolph, Nancy Kwan and Peyton Manning.
A 700-member group, including the AAU board of directors, the U.S. Olympic Committee board of directors, the AAU Sullivan Committee, past Sullivan Award winners and select members of the sports media, vote on the winner as well as fans whose Internet votes account for one-third of the total.
The award has been presented annually since 1930.
Congratulations Timmy! He’s joined yet another very exclusive club. I wonder what the opening lines are for him being a two-time winner?