BARRY RUDIN

Humanitarian Award

Barry Rudin is the CEO of Barry's Ticket Services, a privately owned ticket agency offering premium tickets for all sports and entertainment events. Barry started the business with a student loan and worked hard to expand the business to five offices with over 80 employees.

Barry is an avid supporter of local charities. He is on the Executive Board of the Steven Cohen Heart Foundation at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, founded in the memory of Steven Cohen. Barry and his fellow Executive Board members lend support in the ongoing research of early heart disease.

Barry also is a strong and loyal supporter of the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international development organization motivated by Judaism's imperative to pursue justice. As a supporter he helps to alleviate poverty, hunger, and disease in developing countries regardless of race, religion, or nationality.

For more than 15 years, Rudin has been a valued friend of David and Dana Pump and is "a huge fan of the Harold Pump Foundation and better yet a fan of the Pump Family," says Dana Pump. Barry and the Pumps are zealous sport enthusiasts, especially in basketball. All three have attended together every Super Bowl, Rose Bowl, and Final Four since 1993. Barry knew Harold very well and was with him during his last days. In memory of Harold, Barry has been supporting the Harold Pump Foundation from the beginning and has been a Title Sponsor of the Foundation since its inception.

Barry is married to Drorit and has two sons and a daughter. Putting his passion for sports to practice, Barry enjoys coaching his sons' basketball teams. Humanitarian Award

PAT SUMMITT

Lifetime Achievement Award

Pat Summitt, head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team, is the career victory leader among all coaches in NCAA Div. I basketball history (men’s or women’s) with 970 victories. During her tenure, the Lady Vols have won 7 NCAA titles, as well as a combined 26 Southeastern Conference tournament and regular season championships.

In 1999, Summitt was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, and in 2000, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Her program was honored as the “Team of the Decade” (1990s) by ESPN. In 1990, Summitt was the first female to receive the most prestigious award given by the Hall of Fame, the John Bunn Award. Summitt was also enshrined in the Women's Sports Foundation Hall of Fame in 1990 and in 1996 was inducted into the National Association for Sport and Physical Education’s Hall of Fame.

Additionally, Summitt holds or has held the following positions: current Associate Athletics Director at the University of Tennessee; past vice-president of USA BASKETBALL;past Olympic representative on the Advisory Committee to USA BASKETBALL; member of the Board of Trustees of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame; and member of the Board of Directors for the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.

Summitt also has a brilliant international coaching record. One year after playing on the U.S. Olympic team, Summitt coached the first U.S. Junior National Team in 1977 winning 2 gold medals. In 1984 Summit was named the U.S. Women's Olympic basketball coach winning the gold medal.

Coach Summitt has both authored and been the subject of books, including the 1998 motivational best seller,“Reach For The Summit,” and “Raise the Roof,” a book that recapped the undefeated 1998 season.

Despite her busy schedule, Pat catches as many of her 16-year old son Tyler’s high school basketball games as possible and coached his 2007 AAU basketball team. Lifetime Achievement Award

JOHN ELWAY

Inspirational Award

In 1983 John Elway received his B.S. in economics from Stanford University where he placed 2nd in the Heisman Trophy balloting, setting virtually every PAC-10 and Stanford record for offense and passing. John completed his college career with 5 major NCAA Division 1-A records and 9 major PAC-10 marks.

An all around athlete, Elway was the Yankees top selection in the 1981 summer draft. He was the first player drafted in the 1983 NFL draft by the Baltimore Colts and was later traded to the Denver Broncos that same year where he spent his entire career. Elway holds the NFL’s record of winnings as starting quarterback. He was named the NFL’s MVP in 1987, AFC Player of the Year in 1993, was named AFC Offensive Player of the Week 15 times and AFC Offensive Player of the Month twice.

Elway is the only player in NFL history to pass for over 3,000 yards and rush for over 200 yards in the same season for 7 straight years (1985-91). He finished his career with 51,475 passing yards and 3,407 rushing yards. Elway was responsible for 334 touchdowns and also ranks number one in the NFL for game saving comeback drives.

In 1998 Elway capped his career by winning MVP honors in Super Bowl XXXIII, leading the Broncos to their 2nd straight World Championship. In 1997 the Broncos defeated the Green Bay Packers. John Elway retired from the NFL on May 2, 1999.

Elway was awarded the 1992 “Edge NFL Man of the Year” honoring the Elway Foundation, a non-profit organization for the prevention and treatment of child abuse throughout Colorado.

Elway is currently co-owner of the Colorado Crush, an arena football team and owns two restaurants (Elway’s) in the Denver area. Today John resides in Englewood, Colorado with his four children where he enjoys fishing, playing golf, and spending time with his family.