June 11 Germantown Weekly

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58-city 5K will launch in Sept. Hopes to be biggest annual fundraiser By Tom Charlier charlier@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2572

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Collierville High School’s Joshua Walsh, Boys Swimmer of the Year, walks on stage to collect his trophy during the Pepsi Best of Preps annual awards ceremony held at Germantown Performing Arts Center.

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TOP HONORS Houston High and Collierville athletes win awards at annual ceremony

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Collierville High School’s Bayleigh Wisher collects her Pepsi Best of Preps trophy for Softball Player of the Year during the Best of Preps Annual Awards last Friday.

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When Maia McCoy started track in ninth grade, she never envisioned the heights to which her Whitehaven career would take her. McCoy won the girls track award at the 46th Pepsi Best of the Preps, presented by The Commercial Appeal at the Germantown Performing Arts Center on Friday night, becoming the irst person — male or female — to win the award for three consecutive years. She also was chosen the girls athlete of the year for public schools. “I can’t believe I won for the third year in a row,” she said. “It’s amazing to see how far I’ve come.” Houston won the Best of the Preps suburban division for the 17th straight year and added the female division trophy.

Drawing inspiration from a teenage cancer patient who has organized his own fundraising “army,” St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital oicials last week announced what they hope will be one of the biggest annual moneyraisers for the Memphis institution — a 5-kilometer walkrun to be held in 58 cities. The “St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer,” the inaugural runnings of which are set for Sept. 19 and 26, should raise $10 million this year to fund research, treatment and other work, said Richard Shadyac Jr., president and CEO of ALSAC, the hospital’s fundraising arm. That would surpass the $8 million generated by the St. Jude Memphis Marathon. Another major event, the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway, has raised about $300 million for the hospital since 1991. “Pediatric cancer remains woefully underfunded,” Shadyac told scores of people who had gathered in front of ALSAC headquarters on the St. Jude campus to hear the announcement. The walk-run was scheduled as a highlight of “Childhood Cancer Awareness Month” in September. Despite advances that have pushed the survival rate for childhood cancer from 20 percent to more than 80 percent, some 16,000 American families this year will be told their child has cancer, and one in ive of them will

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Five teens chosen for competition

Youths angle for a good time at the annual MidSouth Junior Fishing Rodeo in Germantown.

Young women will vie for scholarship

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Five young women from Memphis area high schools have been selected for a statewide competition highlighting their scholarship, leadership and talent. They will be among 21 who compete July 10 and 11 at Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn. The state winner will compete in the Distinguished Young Woman of America event in June 2016 for more than $125,000 in scholarships.

This is the irst time ive rising seniors have been chosen from the Memphis area, said Nikki Wilks, co-chair of Distinguished Young Women of Tennessee. The national competition, established in 1958 and held in Mobile, Alabama, also includes community service projects and personal development activities. Kenyona Chaney, of Power Center Academy High School, will represent Memphis. Chaney aspires to attend Syracuse University and become a public relations specialist. She has been a debate team captain and a member of the Future Business Lead-

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Rising high school seniors Maria Gonzalez (from left), Kenyona Chaney, Ariel Chavers and Tanya Galan are all advancing to the state Distinguished Young Women scholarship program where they will compete against other regional winners in a range of categories on July 10 and 11 in Cleveland, Tenn.

ers of America and Beta Club, a service organization. At the competition she will present a poem she wrote called “Questions On What I Like To Call Home.” Ariel Chavers, of Ger-

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