Neiswanger Wins NSSA Award

Robbie Neiswanger was honored Thursday by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association as the Arkansas Sportswriter of the Year.

Neiswanger covers Arkansas sports for Stephens Media’s Arkansas News Bureau.

It was his firstNSSA state award. Harry King, a columnist for the Arkansas News Bureau, has won the award six times. The late Orville Henry won eight times, including the first award given in 1959.

“I’m honored to have received this award and be mentioned with all the other talented writers from around the nation,” Neiswanger said.

“I certainly wasn’t expecting to win.”

Bo Mattingly, host of “Sports Talk With Bo,” radio show, received the Arkansas Sportscaster of the Year award. It was the second consecutive win for Mattingly.

The late Voice of the Razorbacks, Paul Eells, won the award 13 times.

Naturals To Host Luncheon

The Northwest Arkansas Naturals minor league baseball team will host the Hot Stove Luncheon on Jan. 20 at the Holiday Inn in Springdale.

The event will be held in conjunction with the weekly Springdale Rotary Meeting starting at 11:30 a.m. Naturals Manager Vance Wilson, Naturals alumnus Buddy Baumann and other special guests will be in attendance to share memorable baseball experiences, answer questions, and sign post-event autographs.

Tickets for the event are $25 and includes lunch. To reserve your spot in advance, please contact Rebekah Carpenter with the Naturals Front Office at 927-4900. Rotary club members of Northwest Arkansas may reserve their seats to the luncheon by contacting Courtney Palfreeman at 530-8060.

The Naturals will welcome the annual Kansas City Royals Winter Caravan to Northwest Arkansas on Thursday, Jan. 30 at the Fayetteville Academy Sports & Outdoors location.

Cash Earns Tennis Honor

Chris Cash of Fayetteville has completed the Professional Tennis Registry education requirements to earn the organization’s highest coaching qualification of Master of Tennis - Junior Development.

Master of Tennis is a first in coach education in the USA.

The qualification matches the National Council on Accreditation of Coaching Education (NCACE) at the highest level - Level 5. These standards, at different levels, are used by many other sports and education bodies in theUSA, and are recognized and endorsed by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).

Razor Symposium Set For Jan. 18

The eighth-annual Razor Fitness Winter Sports Medicine Symposium takes place Saturday, Jan. 18, at the Graduate Education Building on the University of Arkansas campus.

Online registration is available at uacs.uark.edu/ Events/View/20843 along with a schedule for the symposium.

The symposium is open to students, professors, coaches, teachers, physicians, physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Speakers include Lenny Macrina of Champion Sports Medicine in Birmingham, Ala., and R.J. Elbin, assistant professor of exercise science at the University of Arkansas.

The symposium is presented by the Graduate Athletic Training Education program at the University of Arkansas and Advanced Orthopaedic Specialists in Fayetteville.

The Arkansas State Board of Physical Therapy and the national Board of Certification for Athletic Training have approved 8 continuing education units for attendance.

Cost varies by profession.

Graduate students will present their research at the symposium.

For additional information, contact Jeff Bonacci at 575-4112.

Sports, Pages 7 on 01/10/2014