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Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award

Date: December 8, 2009

Time: 6:30 PM

Location: Palm Beach Gardens Marriott

 

This annual award, presented by the FedEx Orange Bowl, hosted by the Palm Beach County Sports Institute and teh Palm Beach County Convention Center, is given to the top Fottball Bowl Subdivision place-kicker in America. A national selection committee comprised of 110 voters name the place-kicker prior to the annual banquet held during the Orange Bowl festivities. The award is named after the late Lou "The Toe" Groza, a Hall of Fame kicker and offensive lineman for the Cleveland Browns. Proceeds from the event benefit the Palm Beach County Sports Institute, a youth program of the Palm Beach County.


Arizona State's Thomas Weber, 2007 Lou Groza Award Winner
   
 


Seventh Annual Orange Bowl Swimming Classic

Date: January 2, 2010

Location: Jacobs Aquatic Center, Key Largo

The Orange Bowl Swimming Classic will come back for a seventh year at the Jacobs Aquatic Center in Key Largo, mile market 100 oceanside. A post-meet barbeque and team social will be held immediately following the competition at the aquatic center.

For more information, please visit http://jacobsaquaticcenter.org/winter.htm





 

Dunlop Orange Bowl International Tennis Championship

Date: December 6-13, 2009

Time: All Day

Location: Tennis Center at Crandon Park, Key Biscayne


The 2009 Orange Bowl International Tennis Championship, and ITF Group A Series Tournament, will be held on the hard courts of the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in beautiful Key Biscayne, home of the Sony Ericsson Open. More than 1,000 players from 80 countries gather at the state-of-the-art venue to compete for one of the world’s top junior tennis titles. Celebrating  its 63rd year of play, the Championships' past participants include Roger Federer, Boris Becker, Chris Evert, Andre Agassi and John McEnroe

 

 




Orange Bowl Sailing Regatta Series

Date: December 26-30, 2009

Time: All Day

Location: Coral Reef Yacht Club


The Orange Bowl Sailing Regatta Series is sponsored by the Orange Bowl Committee, Cresa partners, and US sailing. The Regatta is one of more than 20 Junior Olympic Festivals that take place throughout the Country.

These events are a cooperative program of US Sailing and US Olympic Committee with the purpose of broadening the base of Youth Sailing in the United States. The Regatta Series is a traditional event of the Orange Bowl Festival that brings more than 600 sailors from around the world to South Florida.

The Series includes five days of competition, featuring Fleet racing on four courses for IOD’s, Laser, Laser Radial, Laser 4.7, and Club 420. Other Orange Bowl Regatta events included the Optimist Dinghy Class (Collegiate Sailors-Coral Reef Yacht Club), International Youth Regatta (Youth-Coral Reef Yacht Club), One Design Classes (Coconut Grove Sailing Club), and Shake-A-Leg (HandicapSailors-Shake-A-Leg Center).