Team Jack WINS the Uplifting Athletes Award

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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).
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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.
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