It also has been recognized.
Adams, who has been central to a transformation at Minneapolis North as the school s head football coach (and previously its school resource officer), has been named the Positive Coaching Alliance s National Coach of the Year.
The organization made the announcement public Friday, after Adams was chosen by a committee that picked the Coach of the Year out of 25 national recipients of the Double-Goal Coach® award presented by TeamSnap. More than 600 nominations were submitted to honor coaches who strive to win while also pursuing the more important goal of teaching life lessons through sports.
Adams selection includes the $10,000 Taube Family Prize, with $2,500 going to Adams and $7,500 tabbed for the Minneapolis North Community High School football program. Adams, the other national Double-Goal Coach® winners and 75 regional winners were recognized Sunday during the PCA s first virtual National Youth Sports Awards and Benefit.
Friday, 5 March 2021, 4:41 pm
Magnolia
, the new poetry collection by Wellington writer Nina
Mingya Powles (27), has now been shortlisted for the Mary
and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry as part of the Ockham NZ
Book Awards.
Last year it was shortlisted for the
UK’s prestigious Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
The UK edition was published by Nine Arches Press in 2020,
with the New Zealand edition due to be formally launched on
13 March 2021 by Powles’s local publisher Seraph
Press.
“It’s been fabulous to see the excitement
for Nina’s work in the UK, where she has been living for
Ghazal named Rhode Island Foundation’s 2020 Murray Prize winner
MARIE GHAZEL, executive director of the Rhode Island Free Clinic, was recently awarded the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2020 Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Free Clinic Executive Director Marie Ghazal was recently awarded the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2020 Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment. Ghazal, who has overseen the clinic since 2010, was recognized by the foundation for her commitment to helping Rhode Islanders with language barriers and economic challenges get needed health care, the…
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it meant so much, so much pride, so much personal prize, family prize was invested in president kennedy. i think it s a very similar instinct that, you know, my grandparents experienced that you re seeing now. so i do have an appreciation and understanding. i just hope people who are upset at me over this will have been appreciation and understanding that this is how i talk about elected officials. i talk about bush as bush not disrespectful. and i think added to all of that is the sense that this president has been disrespected in the way that he has been treated by many so there s an added sensitivity there and you mentioned hillary which i also call her at times hillary. i have an added sensitivity around women being called by their proper title. so i understand where that comes from. we re touching on something really deep here. there are a lot of people who are feeling a deep love for the were president because he s black, because of the historic nature, who feel very defe