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1/26/2011, 11:21 AM
OU's Carter named Coach Wooden Cup winner
By JOHN E. HOOVER World Sports Writer
Published: 1/25/2011 8:47 PM
Last Modified: 1/25/2011 10:58 PM
University of Oklahoma senior Quinton Carter has made it his mission to change lives. On Tuesday, Carter found it was his own life that had changed.
Carter, a safety from Las Vegas, was announced as the winner of the Coach Wooden Cup, at a ceremony in Atlanta.
The award, named for former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, is regarded as the Heisman Trophy of citizenship and community involvement, though participants from all sports and all divisions of NCAA competition are eligible for nomination. The award committee bills it as going to the most outstanding role model among all college athletes.
"This is kind of my passion, to help people out," Carter told the Tulsa World in December. "I feel like God put me in this position to give back and help others and change others' lives."
Carter is in Mobile, Ala., this week practicing for the Senior Bowl, a showcase for college football players hoping to play professional football.
The award is sponsored by Athletes for a Better World. Other finalists were Kimberly Reeves, a basketball player from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., Greg McElroy, quarterback at the University of Alabama, Sarah Leyman, a basketball player from Amherst College in Amherst, Mass., and Daniel Crawford, a football player at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
Carter is the fourth OU athlete to be named finalist, and the second Sooner to win it.
Football players Carl Pendleton (2007) and Jacob Gutierrez (2006) were finalists, and track
sprinter Jackie Dubois won the award in 2006.
Carter's many charitable endeavors include his own foundation, SOUL (Serving Others through Unity and Leadership; ), through which he delivers meals, presents holiday gifts to disabled military veterans, mentors Oklahoma City teens, reads to local elementary school students, runs a free youth football camp in Las Vegas and spends time with a Norman daycare class.
Prior to his senior season at OU, Carter was named to the prestigious AllState Good Works Football Team, an 11-man unit recognized for community involvement by the American Football Coaches Association.
Carter, a three-year starter, isn't just a good Samaritan. He also was a consensus All-Amereican defensive back in 2010, when he ranked third on the team with 96 tackles to go with four interceptions.
By JOHN E. HOOVER World Sports Writer
http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/article.aspx?subjectid=2&articleid=20110125_92_0_Univer628874
Way to go Quinton. :)
By JOHN E. HOOVER World Sports Writer
Published: 1/25/2011 8:47 PM
Last Modified: 1/25/2011 10:58 PM
University of Oklahoma senior Quinton Carter has made it his mission to change lives. On Tuesday, Carter found it was his own life that had changed.
Carter, a safety from Las Vegas, was announced as the winner of the Coach Wooden Cup, at a ceremony in Atlanta.
The award, named for former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, is regarded as the Heisman Trophy of citizenship and community involvement, though participants from all sports and all divisions of NCAA competition are eligible for nomination. The award committee bills it as going to the most outstanding role model among all college athletes.
"This is kind of my passion, to help people out," Carter told the Tulsa World in December. "I feel like God put me in this position to give back and help others and change others' lives."
Carter is in Mobile, Ala., this week practicing for the Senior Bowl, a showcase for college football players hoping to play professional football.
The award is sponsored by Athletes for a Better World. Other finalists were Kimberly Reeves, a basketball player from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., Greg McElroy, quarterback at the University of Alabama, Sarah Leyman, a basketball player from Amherst College in Amherst, Mass., and Daniel Crawford, a football player at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
Carter is the fourth OU athlete to be named finalist, and the second Sooner to win it.
Football players Carl Pendleton (2007) and Jacob Gutierrez (2006) were finalists, and track
sprinter Jackie Dubois won the award in 2006.
Carter's many charitable endeavors include his own foundation, SOUL (Serving Others through Unity and Leadership; ), through which he delivers meals, presents holiday gifts to disabled military veterans, mentors Oklahoma City teens, reads to local elementary school students, runs a free youth football camp in Las Vegas and spends time with a Norman daycare class.
Prior to his senior season at OU, Carter was named to the prestigious AllState Good Works Football Team, an 11-man unit recognized for community involvement by the American Football Coaches Association.
Carter, a three-year starter, isn't just a good Samaritan. He also was a consensus All-Amereican defensive back in 2010, when he ranked third on the team with 96 tackles to go with four interceptions.
By JOHN E. HOOVER World Sports Writer
http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/article.aspx?subjectid=2&articleid=20110125_92_0_Univer628874
Way to go Quinton. :)