Toby to Grand Marshal NASCAR Race

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.whowon.com/sResults.asp?Sanc ... yID=137141

Olympic Silver Medalist Toby Stevenson named Grand Marshal for Silverado 350

by Sarona Winfrey

FORT WORTH-DALLAS, Texas -- Championship Sunday won’t be the only day at the Texas Motor Speedway with an Athens feel. Olympic silver medalist Toby Stevenson (pole vault) has been named the Grand Marshal for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Silverado 350K on Saturday, Oct. 16.

Stevenson, a native of Odessa, is a six-time All-American, NCAA and Pan Am pole vault champion. He finished second at the Olympic Games with a vault of 19’4¼â€Â

[Scott Go Pre]

That is super cool. I now have an excuse to watch NASCAR. It seems that Toby is getting more recoginition than Tim.

[Scott Go Pre]

I missed the race Did anyone happen to catch it?

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/sports/motor ... 942901.htm

A grand time

Olympic pole vault silver medalist Toby Stevenson of Odessa was the grand marshal for Saturday's Silverado 350 and, today, he's headed for the White House to meet President Bush on Monday.

"This is all fun," said Stevenson, a 27-year-old who went to Stanford. "I've been kind of floating around, trying to drum up support for the next four years. Any time I can come along and do things like this, it's awesome."

Stevenson is part of Texas Motor Speedway's weekend-long tribute to Texas Olympians. The grand marshals for today's IRL Chevy 500 are gold medalists Dana Vollmer (swimming) of Granbury High School and Jeremy Wariner (track) of Lamar High and Baylor and silver medalist Darvis Patton (track) of TCU.

[mdavis2685]

yeah i missed the race too but thats cool he gets to meet Bush, he is really helping to get the sport of pole vault reconized

[breaker]

toby is the only guy who can make NASCAR cool....
(ha, sorry to any nascar fans!!!)