University of Oklahoma Athletics
Let Your Sooner Magic Shine
April 20, 2016 | Athletics
For several years, an ESPY-style awards show to honor student-athletes has been in the works. Schools such as Kansas, North Carolina, Auburn and Kentucky have already produced such events with great success.
In the fall, several student-athletes took the concept to Mr. Castiglione, and he loved the idea, pledging the financial and administrative assistance to transform a dream into reality. Months later, here we are: approximately two weeks from the first annual Sooner Choice Awards. Using the theme of Sooner Magic, the SCAs will create a truly magical red carpet entertainment experience designed by the student-athletes, for the student-athletes.
The Sooner Choice Awards will not stop at merely recognizing the accomplishments of current student-athletes, for this will be an event that spans generations of the Sooner tradition. The mission of the Sooner Choice Awards is three-fold. Honor the Past. Empower the present. Inspire the future.
This awards show was conceived in the desire to unite all generations of Sooner athletics by connecting the athletes of today with those who laid the foundations of our storied tradition. That is what separates this athletics program and this event from the crowd. The Sooner Choice Awards are not about what we've done this year, last year or any other year. Instead, this is about WHO we are, past, present, and future. We are Masterful, Accountable, Gracious, Inclusive, and Competitive. We are champions today and leaders tomorrow.
We are the proud heritage of a prouder state, one that extends far beyond our geographical borders. And so with pageantry, comedy and sincerity, the first Sooner Choice Awards will celebrate the core of the Sooner successes of yesterday, today and tomorrow. In doing so, a new tradition will be born, one rooted in celebration not of what we've done, but in who we are. Boomer!
The Sooner Choice Awards Show is an invitation-only event for student-athletes and members of the athletics department staff.
