Courage award
By Eric Todd
Courage Award Winner: Randy Smith
Description of the Courage Award is as follows:
This goes to an individual who shows the courage to overcome an obstacle in order to return to competition. This may be a comeback from an injury, or just having to deal with difficult personal issues but still shows the courage to compete in the USAWA.
Randy Smith is the deserving recipient of our courage award for this year past. He was close to making it to nationals last year, after just having been afflicted with the covid virus. He just missed it, but made it to Clark’s Birthday Weekend just a couple months later. His wife also was having some health issues, but Randy managed to take care of her while attending Worlds in October, and then made the long journey back to Columbia, MO from Michigan for another Nationals this year. Navigating his health and taking care of his wife, while fingding the time and will to still compete goes right along with our definition of courage. Congrats, Randy! Well deserved!