Thursday, February 9, 2012

Nathan Coker takes top Award






 Nathan Coker and G. Jack Wood,  ALFCA Excutive Director
                                              



Nathan Coker, son of James and Candace Coker, was awarded the Dr. Lawrence Lemak Scholarship at the Alabama Football Coaches Association banquet on January 28, 2012.  Dr. Lemak brought the 1996 Olympic Soccer Games to Birmingham and many other sports and sports medicine endeavors in his community and he was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame with the Distinguished Sportsman Award in 1997. Dr. Lemak was the first physician to be inducted into the AHSAA Hall of Fame due to his devotion to the care and safety of high school athletes in the state of Alabama.  The Lemak Scholarship is given on a state wide basis with grades, activities, and the character of the student athlete determining the winner.   Nathan received $1,500 in scholarship funds to be used at the college of his choice.

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