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Milk: It’s Good For You

January 18th, 2008

When I was younger, I was told that I needed to drink milk each night with dinner. Apparently milk “does a body good” but why did I have to sit there each night with a glass of milk?!, I often thought. Well, as the years passed, I started to see many stars get involved with the milk campaign and don a white mustache to endorse milk. And, as it turns out, they’ll be influential in your college future!

A celebrity panel of milk mustache athletes, including Andy Roddick, Tony Hawk, Mia Hamm, and others will help select this year’s winners in the Scholar Athlete Milk Mustache of the Year (SAMMY) awards. The “got milk?” Campaign has partnered with USA Today to launch the SAMMY awards. In its eleventh year, the SAMMY contest continues to recognize those student athletes who have excellence in the complete package: academics, sports, community service, and leadership. Twenty-five students will be awarded $7,500 college scholarships at a special ceremony.

There were 56,000 applications for the SAMMY last year. This year’s deadline is at 11:59p.m. EST on Friday, March 7, 2008.

I may not drink milk with dinner every night anymore, but it certainly does more for us than just keep our bodies healthy!

Check out http://sammy.bodybymilk.com for contest rules and apps today!

-Amanda Fornecker

Entry Filed under: General, Scholarships