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Ferrum’s Smith Receives Wrestle Like a Girl Courage Award

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ferrum College senior Talum Smith has been honored by the Wrestle Like a Girl Foundation with the 2019 Afsoon Roshanzamir Johnston Courage Award presented by Tiffany and Company. Smith was presented with the award at the Wrestle Like a Girl Gala, held Wednesday, October 30, at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Accompanying Smith was Ferrum College President Dr. David Johns and Ferrum Women’s Wrestling Coach Breonnah Neal. The Afsoon Roshanzamir Johnston Courage Award was created in 2016 by Wrestle Like A Girl to honor Afsoon Roshanzamir Johnston and to recognize and celebrate the quality of courage that she admires most – personal courage. 
The Afsoon Roshanzamir Johnston Courage Award honors athletes who have to use immense personal courage to be able to participate or compete in sports, even when participation could put them at great risk. The award celebrates athletes who choose to stand up for what is right, and who do what is right, rather than what is easy. The award recognizes an athlete in the United States or abroad whose actions demonstrate the qualities of personal courage in the spirit of Afsoon Roshanzamir Johnston, as she left a life in Iran to join her family in the United States, where she become the first woman in America’s history to win a wrestling medal at the World Championships for the United States in 1989.  Smith has displayed the utmost courage and perseverance this far in her life. She was nominated for the award by her former coach Jessica Medina, who coached her for two seasons. Smith hails from Washington D.C. and will graduate from Ferrum this year. Smith grew up in Washington, D.C., with no aspirations of going to college. It wasn’t until she began wrestling and fell in love with the sport that she began thinking about earning a college education.  Rest of the story at https://www.ferrumpanthers.com/sports/wwrest/2019-20/releases/20191031k5db9n?mc_cid=e14191cf06&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

November 5, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized