BOA San Antonio Traveling Trophy

[LeanderMomma]

I’m in love with this whole idea. And yes, let’s do one for every SR!!

[JMR2022]

Update on the #teamtexas traveling trophy - my first pass was going to cost $6K for the base traveling trophy, but we wanted to have it set up where the school takes a smaller version home for their trophy case. that appeared to be a bit steep for me and our foundation.

 

the goal is to have a very unique and very "Texas" trophy that we could set up at the alamodome for a selfie station like they do in Indy. I have initiated the conversation with MFA/BOA so that we can use their logo for the trophy or at least understand if they are going to have an issue with us doing so.

Hope to have a final design to share by late June as well as our new designs for the #teamtexas merchandise for the 8 schools going to grand nats. much more to come. 

[JMR2022]

On 5/17/2023 at 9:29 PM, JMR2022 said:

Update on the #teamtexas traveling trophy - my first pass was going to cost $6K for the base traveling trophy, but we wanted to have it set up where the school takes a smaller version home for their trophy case. that appeared to be a bit steep for me and our foundation.

 

the goal is to have a very unique and very "Texas" trophy that we could set up at the alamodome for a selfie station like they do in Indy. I have initiated the conversation with MFA/BOA so that we can use their logo for the trophy or at least understand if they are going to have an issue with us doing so.

Hope to have a final design to share by late June as well as our new designs for the #teamtexas merchandise for the 8 schools going to grand nats. much more to come. 

the MFA/BOA Leadership will be reviewing this idea tomorrow - hope to hear something by the end of the day on what, if any trophy they will allow/approve for the SA Super Regional - we are working on a number of designs that include the armadillo, a road runner, and a northern Mocking bird (this is the state bird - makes sense if they use an eagle - national bird for nationals - that we use the Texas bird for the Texas super regional. so much more to come - will keep you posted as this develops

[JMR2022]

On 6/5/2023 at 8:05 PM, JMR2022 said:

the MFA/BOA Leadership will be reviewing this idea tomorrow - hope to hear something by the end of the day on what, if any trophy they will allow/approve for the SA Super Regional - we are working on a number of designs that include the armadillo, a road runner, and a northern Mocking bird (this is the state bird - makes sense if they use an eagle - national bird for nationals - that we use the Texas bird for the Texas super regional. so much more to come - will keep you posted as this develops

Multiple discussions today with MFA/BOA. they have approved us moving forward to design the trophy. Our current design plan is to have a wood base similar to the Kevin Trophy but slightly smaller in height and width. instead of the eagle, we are working on a the northern Mockingbird on a branch of blue bonnets - this captures the state bird and state flower while also paying respect to the CTJ namesake "Lady Bird" Johnson. In many ways it will be like the Grand National Trophy but shorter and the bird will be smaller than the eagle. it is not our intent to upstage the Grand National Trophy. Once the design is completed, we will submit it for final review and produce the trophy to be presented in November in the dome.

[packwick]

16 hours ago, JMR2022 said:

Multiple discussions today with MFA/BOA. they have approved us moving forward to design the trophy. Our current design plan is to have a wood base similar to the Kevin Trophy but slightly smaller in height and width. instead of the eagle, we are working on a the northern Mockingbird on a branch of blue bonnets - this captures the state bird and state flower while also paying respect to the CTJ namesake "Lady Bird" Johnson. In many ways it will be like the Grand National Trophy but shorter and the bird will be smaller than the eagle. it is not our intent to upstage the Grand National Trophy. Once the design is completed, we will submit it for final review and produce the trophy to be presented in November in the dome.

sounds like it'll be a really pretty trophy, exciting!

[Tubalord11]

Okay, so I just want to confirm and make sure I’m not reading wrong…this is actually going to be a thing?!?!?

[JMR2022]

On 6/8/2023 at 4:54 PM, Tubalord11 said:

Okay, so I just want to confirm and make sure I’m not reading wrong…this is actually going to be a thing?!?!?

Yes - it is going to be a thing. I spoke with the designer this past week and submitted my concept. they are working to create a design in the next 10 days or so that we can submit to MFA/BOA for approval to produce it. it is looking good that this will happen and be ready prior to the 2023 BOA-SA Super Regional.

 

[Tubalord11]

45 minutes ago, JMR2022 said:

Yes - it is going to be a thing. I spoke with the designer this past week and submitted my concept. they are working to create a design in the next 10 days or so that we can submit to MFA/BOA for approval to produce it. it is looking good that this will happen and be ready prior to the 2023 BOA-SA Super Regional.

 

OMG THIS IS AMAZING! Thank you so much for this, a traveling trophy for SA should have been a thing for a while now, but this is awesome regardless! 

[JMR2022]

7 hours ago, Tubalord11 said:

OMG THIS IS AMAZING! Thank you so much for this, a traveling trophy for SA should have been a thing for a while now, but this is awesome regardless! 

it should have been - but the base will have the names of all the schools that have won it since San Antonio became a super regional in 2003 - 

 

[LeanderMomma]

Any updates?