Cutcliffe tabbed ASHOF’s FCA breakfast speaker
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.(ashof.com)-Class of 2016 Inductee David Cutcliffe will be the featured speaker at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Breakfast on Saturday morning, May 21, 2016, as part of the Alabama sports Hall of Fame Induction weekend.
A native of Birmingham, Cutcliffe was a long-time assistant coach at Tennessee, where he received the Frank Broyles Award in 1998 as the Best Assistant Coach of the Year. He was also Tennessee’s Offensive Coordinator when they won the National Championship in 1998. During his years in Knoxville, the Volunteers won five SEC Championships.
As Head Coach at Ole Miss he led the Rebels to four bowl victories. The Rebels tied for the SEC Western Division Championship in 2003. He was named SEC Coach of the Year in 2003.
In 2012 he led Duke to their first Bowl Game in 18 years. The ten wins in 2013 for Duke was the first double digit win total for a season in 100 years of Blue Devil football. Duke’s 2013 team became the first ACC squad to lose its first two conference games and win the division championship. The overtime victory over Indiana (44-41) in the 2015 New Era Pinstripe Bowl was the first Bowl victory for the Blue Devils since 1961.
He has mentored two Super Bowl MVP quarterbacks in Peyton Manning (Tennessee) and his brother Eli (Ole Miss). There were two other all-star quarterbacks from Tennessee who he mentored, Heath Shuler and Tee Martin.
The Master of Ceremonies for the breakfast will be 1985 Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Inductee Mike Kolen “Captain Crunch.” He was a linebacker on the “No-name Defense” of the Miami Dolphins for eight years. He played in three straight Super Bowls helping the Dolphins to win back-to-back in 1973 and 1974. In 1969 he was the first to receive the National Christian Athlete of Year Award.
The FCA will recognize the Male and Female Athletes of the Year for numerous high schools in the area. They will also announce the overall FCA Male and Female High School Athlete of Year Scholarship winners. Each will receive a five hundred dollar scholarship to the university of their choice.
Additionally, the Birmingham Athletic Partnership (BAP) will recognize scholarship winners from each of the Birmingham City schools seven (7) high schools; including the winners of the W. Edgar and Louise C. Welden Founders Scholarship and the Peter W. Field Scholarships.
Other members of the ASHOF Class of 2016 include: James Brooks (football), Jim Fulmer (basketball), Oscar Gamble (baseball), Martha Jones Lang (golf), Chris Samuels (football), Calvin Smith (track and field), and Andrew Toney (basketball). Edgar Welden will receive the 2016 Distinguished American Sportsman Award.
The breakfast will be in the BJCC East Ballroom at 8:30 a.m. Tickets are $20.00 each. To order tickets please contact the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame at 205-323-6665. Tickets can be purchased the morning of the event.
