I had a bunch of Latin trophies, including third in the painting competition and second in the state Latin proficiency contest. I think my mother threw them out and then lied about it, as she frequently does stuff like that. But her forcing me to take Latin served me well–I still say “Deus conservat omnia” when I’m alarmed.
Motorcycle racin’!
In a box somewhere, I have a bunch of old 1980’s-era Awana trophies; Awana is a Christian scout/service-type youth thing. I did the entire range, since my mom ran the local chapter for my childhood church, and have the Timothy and Citation awards which even now get touted as hard to earn and rare in the wild.
I have a little plastic “participation” trophy from the one season my mom made me play Little League, a plaque from Atari for top score in my age bracket for an Asteroids contest, a plaque from Nintendo for placing (and losing!) in the semi-finals at the Nintendo World Championships, an employee of the year plaque from a fast food job, and two employee of the month plaques from my current retail job.
In the last few years, I’ve gotten a bunch of academic-type plaques and… things. I call the things “trophies” but they’re not those traditional wood/chrome/figurines type of things, but more like lucite geometric shapes or small sculptures. Two top-100 university student plaques, eight dean’s science scholar plaques, two top science student trophies, top senior math major trophy, a speech night trophy, top senior philosophy major plaque, two academic mentor of the month plaques, one academic mentor of the year trophy and plaque set. I now know where a large percentage of my student activity fees have gone.
I have a bunch of chess trophies from when I was in high school. geek
What year(s)?
I think this thread is cool. So many little interesting bits about everyone!
Some old, old ROTC/CAP ribbons and medals.
A slowly growing collection of marathon/half-marathon finisher medals.
A few plaques related to college as a faculty advisor, as well as a job-related plaque for committee service.
On my desk is a 1st place trophy for the Florida Pharmacy Association 109th Annual Convention Golf Tournament, Marco Island, Florida, June 25th, 1999. I have another 1st place trophy for a team golf event and a granite MVP trophy for performance in a previous job (2005.)
I had a bunch of them as a youth but they are all long gone.
I’ve only kept one trophy and one medal…the trophy from finishing first in a junior golf tournament (shocking to me because I shot my second-lowest score to do it) and the medal I won for finishing in the top 15 of a regional high school mathematics competition. Which was also shocking because I wasn’t taking math that year and felt a bit rusty.
Can I count my trophy wife?
I had lots of racketball trophies from playing in leagues for 35 years.
I had lots of bowling trophies, golf trophies, and softball trophies. I played those for decades too.
I had a couple dictionaries with my name engraved on it for 2nd place in 8 and 9 th grade spelling bees. Same girl beat me both years. I never forgave her. They were the blue Websters that were used in school back then.
My wife had them in a big box. When my kid was about 3 or 4 ,he took them all apart. I tossed them in the garbage.
All I have left is 3 golf plaques that hang on the wall. They look good.
I won a Brit Army best recruit marksman trophy (In my particular intake, not every single recruit in that years Brit Army intake) , it was one of those that you had to hand back the following year.
I dropped it at home and had to repair it with superglue, but no one noticed when I returned it.
Also was a part owner of a trophy as a member of the winning patrol in a Special forces patrol competition.