By Kanon Oharu, Molly Boardman, Kaela Hoss, Kate Walsh, and Olivia Kelly
For our most recent Spanish Honor Society bulletin board, we discussed and explored highly successful Spanish professional athletes. Our first athlete that was spotlighted was Rafael Nadal, a professional tennis player. In his career, he has won fourteen French Open championships in his career, as well as being the first male player to win 22 “Grand Slam” championship titles in singles. Currently, he has suffered an injury, prohibiting him from playing tennis, but hopes to continue on to win more championships. Our next athlete is Blanca Fernández Ochoa, who was an Olympic alpine skier. Between 1985 to 1991, she won four World Cups, but unfortunately in 2019, she passed away. Another athlete we discussed was Pau Gasol, a basketball player. In his early years, his team won the ACB League championship twice and won Spain’s “Copa del Rey de Baloncesto'' once. In 2017, he became the highest scorer of all time in a single year. Pau announced his retirement in 2021 and is currently serving an eight year term on the International Olympic Committee’s Athletes’ Commission. Miguel Indurain was another athlete that was highlighted on the board. He won the “Tour de France” five times consecutively, the Olympics, and the World Championship twice. Currently, he is retired and stated that he enjoys spending time with his family. Another name on the board was Pablo Gavira, or Gavi. He has received the “Golden Boy” Award from the French Soccer Club and the “Kopa Trophy”, both in 2022. He quickly earned a spot as the starting eleven on the field as center midfield, despite his very young age of nineteen years, for both FC Barcelona and the Spanish National Team, but as of recently, Gavi has been seen on the sidelines due to an ACL tear. However, his surgery was a success and his future is bright for many more years to come. The last athlete that we covered on the board was Mireia Belmonte Garcia. She is a Spanish Olympic, world, and European champion swimmer. She is the world record holder in the short course 200-meter butterfly and 400-meter individual medley and was the first Spanish woman to win a gold medal in swimming at the Olympics. She is currently still swimming today. To learn more about each of these athletes with more detail, stop by the Spanish National Honor Society bulletin board by the Spanish rooms. Comments are closed.
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