knapplc Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 LINK Here’s an N-Sider alert that will blanket Nebraska with sunshine and spread light across Husker Nation. An organization called Uplifting Athletes, based in Camp Hill, Pa., has announced four finalists for its 2012 Uplifting Athletes Rare Disease Champion Award, and all-conference running back Rex Burkhead is representing Nebraska and the Big Ten Conference. The best thing about this award is how it’s determined – through online voting, beginning Wednesday, Feb. 1 and ending Wednesday, Feb. 29. That gives Husker fans a full month to use their own social networks and targeted lists to help Burkhead win this worthy award. Voting is restricted to one online vote per e-mail address. Burkhead is on the ballot with candidates from three more BCS conferences (North Carolina State’s Wayne Crawford from the ACC, UCLA’s Luke Gane from the Pac-12 and Florida’s David Lerner from the SEC). Worthy cause. NOTE - merged the two threads. Nebraska Huskers @Huskers Congratulations to #Huskers RB Rex Burkhead who was just named the 2012 Uplifting Athletes Award Winner. Way to go Rex...GO BIG RED! #B1G From Randy York's blog: By Randy York The N-Sider is a bit out of its comfort zone today, but as a courtesy to Big Red fans who voted for Rex Burkhead to win the 2012 Uplifting Athletes Rare Disease Champion Award, we have a news flash. Scott Shirley, executive director of the Uplifting Athletes organization, will make the announcement today at 12:20 p.m. CT. It will be carried live in a nationally broadcast webcast at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., as part of the day’s events to recognize Global Rare Disease Day. While Nebraska officials have received no official announcement of the winner, a spokeswoman for the organization said Wednesday that a record number of votes were counted Sunday, the deadline for voting. “More than 76,000 votes were cast for this year’s award,” said Jaime Fettrow-Alderfer, who works in the organization’s Camp Hill, Pa., office. Besides Burkhead, Nebraska’s All-Big Ten running back, the other finalists for this year’s award are: North Carolina State’s Wayne Crawford, UCLA’s Luke Gane and Florida’s David Lerner. The honor is presented annually to recognize a leader in the world of college football who has realized his or her potential to make a positive and lasting impact on the rare disease community. More than 30 million Americans are affected by rare diseases, and based on that fact alone, we are confident the webcast is meaningful and impactful, whether Burkhead wins the award or another worthy finalist wins. LINK to Randy's blog Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Might want to pin this one 1 Quote Link to comment
Cornicator Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Apparently diseases are nonexistent in the SEC. Quote Link to comment
kchusker_chris Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Apparently diseases are nonexistent in the SEC. guess the schools didn't sed the value in buying this award too... Quote Link to comment
huskernumerouno Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Great recognition for Rex. Go Team JACK Quote Link to comment
95huskers Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Great to see Huskers creating awareness for a cause. Good luck Jack!!! Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 VOTED How and where did you vote? Voting isn't supposed to start until Feb 1st Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Here's the actual voting page: http://www.upliftingathletes.org/take-action/rare-disease-champion Get at it Husker Nation! (maybe we should pin this one ) Quote Link to comment
VectorVictor Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Here's the actual voting page: http://www.uplifting...isease-champion Get at it Husker Nation! (maybe we should pin this one ) Voted. Only one vote per email, though, so feel free to create multiple Yahoo and Hotmail boxes to help Team Rex. Quote Link to comment
Blaze1up Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Where is his Heisman candidate page ? Quote Link to comment
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