Phelps and Coughlin Win Top Honors at Golden Goggles (11/17/2008)

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Olympic champions Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.) and Natalie Coughlin (Vallejo, Calif.) were in attendance to accept top honors tonight at the USA Swimming Foundation’s Golden Goggle Awards. Phelps and Coughlin took home the awards for Male and Female Athlete of the Year, respectively. The Golden Goggle Awards, held at the New York Hilton and hosted by Bob Costas, celebrated the accomplishments of 2008 Olympic Swim Team at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

Phelps took home a total of three Golden Goggle Awards. His unprecedented eight Olympic gold medals and seven world records in Beijing earned him the Male Athlete of the Year award, as well as the Male Performance of the Year award for his stunning .one one-hudredth of a second win in the 100m fly at the Olympics. Phelps, along with teammates Garrett Weber-Gale (Milwaukee, Wis.), Cullen Jones (New Brunswick, N.J.) and Jason Lezak (Irvine, Calif.) won the award for Relay Performance of the Year for their come-from-behind gold medal and world-record breaking swim in the 400m free relay in Beijing. During Lezak’s heroic swim, the team overtook the French team in the last 10 meters of the race to win the gold.

“It’s been a fun year and hopefully there will be more to come,” Phelps said.

Coughlin won top honors on the women’s side, winning the Female Athlete of the Year trophy. Coughlin earned six medals at the Olympics – one gold, two silver, and three bronze, becoming the first woman in any sport, to win six medals in one Olympiad. In 2008, Coughlin broke the 100m back world record three times and set a total of 11 American records.

“This was a great year,” Coughlin said. “This year was really special with so many records being broken and I’m really glad to have been a part of it.”

Eric Shanteau (Lilburn, Ga.) claimed the Perseverance Award for his performance at the Olympics following his diagnosis with cancer just weeks before the 2008 Olympic Trials. After qualifying for the Olympic team in the 200m breast, Shanteau made the decision to live out his Olympic dream and compete in Beijing where he swam a lifetime-best time in his event. Following the Games, Shanteau returned home and had surgery to remove the cancerous growth. He is now cancer-free.

Rebecca Soni (Plainsboro, N.J.) was honored with two Golden Goggle awards, the Breakout Performer of the Year Award and the Female Performance of the Year Award for her stellar performance in the 200m breast at the Olympics in 2008. The USC senior took home a total of three Olympic medals in Beijing, a gold in the 200m breast and silvers in the 100m breast and 400m medley relay. Soni broke the world record in the 200m breast, and defeated heavy favorite Leisel Jones of Australia to win her first gold.

For the third year in a row, the Coach of the Year Golden Goggle award was presented to Bob Bowman (Baltimore, Md.), who coached four swimmers onto the 2008 Olympic Team - Michael Phelps, Peter Vanderkaay, Erik Vendt and Allison Schmitt. Bowman coached Phelps to a historic eight gold medals and seven world records in Beijing. All of his athletes, male and female, earned Olympic medals in the 800m free relay, and Vanderkaay earned a bronze medal in the 200m free. Bowman was a men’s assistant coach in Beijing, marking his second appearance on the U.S. Olympic coaching staff.

Two special awards were also presented at the 2008 Golden Goggle Awards, the Athlete Humanitarian Award and the Impact Award. Both awards are presented in Olympic years only. The NCAA was the recipient of the Impact Award, an award given to the person or organization that demonstrates an overwhelming support for the sport of swimming throughout the Olympic quadrennial. Dr. Myles Brand, the president of the NCAA, accepted the award on its behalf.

The Athlete Humanitarian Award was presented to Olympian Cullen Jones for his work to promote diversity in the sport of swimming through visits to Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs and YMCAs to promote water-safety. Jones serves as a national spokesman for Make a Splash, the national, child-focused water safety initiative of the USA Swimming Foundation. Since its launch in February of 2007, Make a Splash has touched 750,000 kids through free or low cost swim lessons or water safety education.

Among the celebrity guests in attendance tonight were Donald Trump, Tiki Barber, David Blaine, Ana Ortiz (“Ugly Betty’), Heather Matarazzo, as well as Olympic legends Summer Sanders, Pablo Morales, Gary Hall Jr., Lenny Krayzelburg, Jenny Thompson, and Rowdy Gaines.

The Golden Goggle Awards will be broadcast online on Tuesday, November 18 on AT&T blue room. The special webcast will include interviews from the red carpet, footage of the exclusive VIP party, backstage preparations.

奥运冠军迈克尔菲尔普斯（巴尔的摩，马里兰州）和纳塔莉考夫林（瓦列霍，加利福尼亚州）出席了会议，接受在美国游泳基金会的最高荣誉奖金眼镜今晚。菲尔普斯和考夫林捧回男，女年度最佳运动员，分别奖励。金眼镜奖，在纽约希尔顿酒店举行，由Bob科斯塔斯主办，庆祝2008年奥运会在北京举办2008年奥运会游泳代表队成绩，中国。

菲尔普斯捧回了3金眼镜奖项。他史无前例的八枚奥运会金牌和7项世界纪录在北京为他赢得了年度最佳男运动员，以及为他的惊人的年度最佳男性能。之一，在100米的第二场胜利hudredth飞在奥运会。菲尔普斯与队友一起加勒特韦伯-烈风（密尔沃基，威斯康星州），卡伦琼斯（新不伦瑞克，新泽西州）和贾森莱扎克（尔湾，加利福尼亚州）赢得了接力为他们终于获得金牌背后年度表现奖金牌和世界纪录打破了400米游泳接力在北京的自由。在莱扎克的英雄游泳，该小组在过去超过10米的比赛，法国队赢得金牌。

“这是一个有趣的一年，希望会有更多的惊喜，”菲尔普斯说。

库格林赢得女子方面的最高荣誉，赢得了年度最佳女运动员奖杯。考夫林在奥运会上获得6枚奖牌 - 1金，2银和3枚铜牌，成为第一位在任何体育项目，赢得一个奥运会六枚奖牌。 2008年，库格林打破了100米世界纪录3次回来，并设置了11个美国记录总数。

“这是一个伟大的一年，”考夫林说。 “今年真的有这么多的纪录被打破，我真的很高兴有一个特殊的一部分。”

埃里克尚托（利尔本，佐治亚州）声称对他在奥运会上表现的毅力奖，他与癌症诊断后几个星期前的2008年奥运会的选拔赛。在后200米乳腺癌国奥队预选赛，尚托决定要活出他的梦想，在北京奥运会比赛，他游在他一生的事件，最好的时机。奥运会之后，尚托回家了手术切除癌细胞的增长。他现在是癌症的自由。

丽贝卡索尼（普恩斯伯勒，新泽西州）的两个黄金眼镜荣获奖项的年度奖和年度最佳女演员奖性能突围她在200米乳腺癌的出色表现在2008年奥运会。南加州大学高级捧回了三个在北京奥运会奖牌总数在200米和100米乳腺癌乳腺癌枚银牌和400米混合泳接力金牌。索尼打破了200米世界纪录乳房，并击败大热门莱塞尔琼斯澳大利亚赢得了首枚金牌。

对于连续第三年，年度最佳教练金眼镜已提交给鲍勃鲍曼（巴尔的摩，马里兰州），谁执教到2008年的奥运代表队4名选手 - 迈克尔菲尔普斯，彼得Vanderkaay，埃里克施密特Vendt和Allison。鲍曼教练菲尔普斯一个历史性的8枚金牌和7项世界纪录在北京。他的运动员，所有的男性和女性，在获得800米自由泳接力的奥运金牌，并赢得了200米Vanderkaay自由了一枚铜牌。鲍曼是一男子在北京的助理教练，这标志着他在美国奥运教练组第二次出现。

两个特殊的奖项也于2008年提出的黄金眼镜奖，运动员人道主义奖和影响力大奖。这两个奖项，颁发奥运年。在NCAA是该奖项的影响，给予该人或组织，演示整个奥运会每四年一个游泳运动的压倒性支持奖。迈尔斯博士品牌，在NCAA总统，代其接受了奖项。

在运动员人道主义奖颁发给他的工作奥海卡伦琼斯以促进游泳运动一直到男童和女童俱乐部和基督教青年会，促进水的安全访问的多样性。琼斯担任了一个惊喜，在国家，儿童为重点的水游泳基金会的美国国家安全倡议发言人。自2007年2月推出以来，为飞溅触及通过免费或低费用75万孩子游泳课或水上安全教育。

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