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14th Mobile
Challenge of Champions Donna on the Side - before the meet |
What's Happening in Mobile?
What to do before the meet starts.
Mobile is one of the oldest cities in the United States. Located on Mobile Bay along the Gulf Shore, it has a mixed French and Spanish heritage. Walking around downtown you can see this heritage in the building and monuments. You can almost hear the band that once played in the Gazebo in Bienville Square. But Mobile is also a modern city with skyscrapers, conventions, museums, IMAX theatre, Bellingrath Gardens and more.
| Downtown skyline hugs the watersedge |
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| Live oaks enhance the beauty of the historic plantation syle houses on Government Street |
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Last August, Katrina wrecked many Gulf Coast communities including Mobile. While not as devestated as New Orleans or Biloxi, Mobile still sustained damage. But unlike other areas most of Mobile is back together. Alas though, we heard that one of our favorite restaurants on the causeway was destroyed. So we took a ride out to see for ourselves.
The Battleship Memorial Park still exists and the USS Alabama still sits on the shore. We undertand that just before the storm hit, many people drove their cars onto the Alabama to ride out the storm. But there was damage to an I-10 entrance ramp and a variety of buildings and businesses including one of our favorite restaurants, the Original Oyster House. But luckily the Original Oyster House is operating temporarily out of other quarters down the road.
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| The Original Oyster House today | |
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| Some things remain the same. | |
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the Mobile Carnival Museum
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| The Mobile Carnival Museum | |
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| Museum Gift Shop | |
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Saturday Morning Radio Broadcast and Breakfast
The Challenge of Champions gets good coverage in Mobile from the media including radio, TV and newspaper. Arthur Mack from the Mobile Register started the ball rolling with a preview article on Thursday. TV coverage followed at the press conference on Thursday and then at the Open meet Friday. On Saturday there was a radio show to preview the exciting Saturday events. The session was highlighted by interviews with coaches, and sports analysts.
| Panelists:DyeStat's John Dye, Steve Schoenewald, Meet Director and Mike Byrnes, National Scholastic Sports Foundation |
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| Steve Schoenewald and Coach Leroy Millsap from Cahokia IL |
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Mike Byrnes and Coach Millsap |
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| Arthur Mack, John Dye and Coach Millsap |
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Breakfast with a Smile
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Look Who's Here
| Trey Johnson, Houston HS in Germantown TN, with John Dye Trey is a DyeStat "junkie" who was thrilled to meet John. This is no joke. His parents, friends, teammates and coaches all were quick to agree that Trey is "hooked." We love you Trey! |
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With a wave and a smile Trey Johnson's parents give the ok to the DyeStat habit. |
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| Stratford SC mostly throwers |
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| More of Houston HS Germantown TN: (from left) Trey Johnson, Gerald Bowen, Allyson Brown, Casey McCutcheon, Carmelo Mannino |
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| From Hoover TN: Nicole Muldowney, Coach Devon Hind, Kimberly Muldowny, Jackie Clay |
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From Glen Oaks, Baton Rouge LA: (from left) Jennifer Harrison, Takisha Houston, Chevannah Sanchez |
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| From Carrollton So GA, pole vaulter, Maurie Peoples with her mom, Marie |
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From Glen Oaks: Daisia Woods (l) and Mary Johnson |
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| From Sulfer LA, Mary Newton and Leland McCree |
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Chalonda Goodman GA with her parents Patricia and Harold Chalonda, a freshman is following in the footsteps of her brother, Cedric, now at the University of Georgia |
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| Brittany Riddle with parents dad, Whitney, mom Angela and friend, Courtney Denson |
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| Parents and Coach from Glen Oaks LA: Mary Foster, Coach Vernon Langley and Mary Wilson |
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| On the Side: Coach Ryan Bourque from Leeds and Coach Michael Zelwak from Spain Park |
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| Walton GA |
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