Shawn Johnson, Tyler Hansbrough Amongst Honorees at Amateur Athlete Awards

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After giving my Olympic Presentation to the NY Amateur Sports Alliance (Thank guys!) I stopped by downstairs and caught the tail-end of the award ceremony of 79th Annual AAU Sullivan Awards Honoring Americas Top Amateur Athletes.

They gave awards to Shawn Johnson, Tyler Hansbrough and others based on voting on a USA Today Poll.  Great event!

Special shout out to all the Dancing with the Stars and Shawn Johnson fans whom found my blog seconds after I posted last time!  (I’m definitely rooting for my Olympic Teammate Shawn J. to go all the way!)

Hope you enjoy the pics and check out the sport of fencing soon! (We have cool footwork also!)

Sometimes Life is Very Hard…

Eating delicious cupcakes with Miss New York Leigh-Taylor Smith and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Melissa Haro at the Conde Nast Traveler Party…(Please note the big smile! )

Cupcakes and beautiful women…the perfect combo!

Thankfully I was also with friends Scott Buccheit, Naeem Delbridge and Justin Tranter or else I would have been really bored!  (Hmm for some reason I have no pictures of them…must have gotten distraced. haha)

It was a cool party…Thanks to Megan Montenaro and the rest of the Conde Nast crew for a great night!

79th Annual AAU Sullivan Top Amateur Athlete Event: Honoring Shawn Johnson, Tyler Hansbrough, Nastia Liukin, Cynthia Barboza and Garrett Weber-Gale

I’m giving a speech tonight to the NY Amateur Sports Alliance at the NYAC and I was arriving early to set up when whom should I see walking  down the hallways but my Olympic teammate Gold Medalist Shawn Johnson.(Now currently staring on dancing with the stars!)

I poked my head into the room and saw that it was a small press conference for an event tonight for the 79th Annual AAU Sullivan Awards Honoring Americas Top Amateur Athletes.  

Tyler Hansbrough, Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Cynthia Barboza and Garrett Weber-Gale are being honored…

Also met WFAN radion personality Ann Ligouri who was once on a fencing cruise with 6-time Fencing Olympian Peter Westbrook back in the day! 

The folks at AAU running the event also graciously invited me since its downstairs from my speech so should be a fun evening!

It never ceases to amaze me how many randomly great things happen in NYC!