WichitanWolverine

June 29th, 2010 at 1:07 PM ^

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?!?!

MGoShoe

June 29th, 2010 at 2:40 PM ^

...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

Blue Cheese

June 29th, 2010 at 11:01 PM ^

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?

MGoShoe

June 29th, 2010 at 11:14 PM ^

...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.