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PIERRE-LOUIS JOINS RAIDER FOOTBALL ELITE

For the third consecutive year, a Raider football player was named the All-Broward County Male Athlete of the Year by The Miami Herald.

Philip Pierre-Louis was selected as the Male Athlete of the Year based on his performance both in football and track. He joins 10 other Aquinas football greats that have been honored as the best male athlete in Broward since the award began during the 1964-65 school year.

As a receiver for the Class 5A State Champion Raiders, Pierre-Louis was one of the most dynamic players in the state. He led St. Thomas with 30 receptions for 586 yards and eight touchdowns. Pierre-Louis, 5-8 and 170 pounds, also scored four times on punt returns. He will attend Auburn University on a football scholarship.

Pierre-Louis also won the award for the Male Track Athlete of the Year. He clinched the Raiders first boy's state title with a victory in the 200 meters at the 3A State Finals. Known for the speed he generates coming off the curve, Pierre-Louis clocked a career best 21.17 to win the Region 4-3A title. The senior's second place finish in the 100 meters at the Finals set the tone for the Raider's march to their first title.

Pierre-Louis claims his place in Raider history along with these previous Raider Male Athletes of the Year.

2006-07: Leonard Hankerson

2005-06: Sam Young

2002-03: Tavares Gooden

2001-02: Nate Salley

2000-01: Jomo Fagan

1999-00: Tony Brown

1994-95: Billy Brown

1992-93: Terry Smith

1984-85: Slip Watkins

1979-80: Stephan Humphries

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Raider's Michael Irvin inducted into NFL Hall of Fame

Published Sunday August 5, 2007 in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Irvin's induction caps golden night
Ethan J. Skolnick, Sports columnist

CANTON, Ohio Sandy Irvin, wearing a glittery Dallas Cowboys hat, had to wait like everyone else. Her husband of 17 years, never short on words, had refused to share a single one from the speech he had composed for this ceremony — this ceremony at which he would become the first South Florida native enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Still, she had a suspicion about how Michael might act on stage Saturday after seeing him the night before, when he slipped on threads finer than anything in his celebrated wardrobe. Threads that required 750 catches and three years of eligibility to earn. Threads many didn't believe he deserved because of the trouble he had found off the field.

"When they put that yellow jacket on him, I saw him melt," Sandy said, two hours before his turn. "You know, I believe he became a little boy again, just for that moment. Just the way he turned around and looked at me."