Leaders and Best in 50 States: Georgia and Connecticut
Today MGoBlue.com will announce its selections for the states of Georgia and Connecticut. Per usual, I have no clue who could be selected for either state. Any guesses?
Fritz Seyferth ('69-'71 Football) would be a really good choice for Connecticut, for what he's done since graduating if nothing else.
This is neat..I didn't know they were doing this.
was born in Midland but played H.S. ball Norcross, GA. Plus the Coner is a Georgia boy. A shoe in, obvs.
on lyrical genius alone
smooooov...
The winners are Eric Wunderlich (Atlanta, GA) for swimming and Justin Toman (Wallingford, CT) for gymnastics.
I guess we're only 2 days in but where are the goddamn football players?!?!
...on the winners. A 17-time all-american/national champion/Olympian swimmer and a two-time national champion gymnast who earned the gymnastics version of the Heisman and Hobey Baker award. Congrats to the selectees.
GEORGIA |
Eric Wunderlich (Atlanta), Men's Swimming and Diving • Erich Wunderlich (1989-91, 1993) earned 17 All-America honors, won a national title in 1993 and took sixth in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 1996 Olympics. Honorable Mention • Amber Berendowsky, Women's Soccer • Phil Goldberg, Men's Gymnastics • Justin Laury, Men's Gymnastics • Megan Tuura, Women's Soccer |
CONNECTICUT |
Justin Toman (Wallingford), Men's Gymnastics • Justin Toman (1998-2000, 2002) won two individual national championships, five All-America honors and the 2002 Nissen-Emery award (the Heisman trophy of men’s gymnastics). Honorable Mention • Karen Coldwell, Rowing • Dan Goldberg, Men's Tennis • Dan Madwed, Men's Swimming and Diving • David Roberts, Ice Hockey |
I have not been able to find where Dan Madwell went to high school. I read he swan in Maryland prior to enrolling at UM, but I have not seen any mention of his high school on the Internet. The city of Stamford is mentioned, but it has a few high schools. If he went to high school outside a state should he be considered a native of that state? I guess he could be, but since athlete's generally go from high school to college, it would seem the college would categorize the origin of a student by where he went to high school. This is confusing. I guess the criteria for residency would have to be clarified. So where did he go to high school?
...mgoblue.com bio, Madwed attended Towson HS. Since that's in MD, presumably he transferred there from whatever school he attended in Stamford when he joined up with the NBAC.
Transferring to a MD HS to train with an elite swim club doesn't make him a native of MD. An analagous situation is if a kid moved from out of state to A2 to attend the US Hockey NTDP or Ricardo Miller moving from Florida to A2 for one semester. No one says those guys are from Michigan.