2009 SAMMY Winners

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2009 SAMMY Winners

Release year:2009
Category:SAMMY / student-athlete winners
Collections:Contest Winners
Times published:1
Type:Special campaign / contest winners

Notes

Official USDA 2009 reporting confirms that all 25 SAMMY winners were featured in a special Milk Mustache advertisement appearing in USA Today, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN magazines. Contemporaneous winner coverage dates the USA Today placement to June 26, 2009. The complete group-ad scan is still unrecovered.

The ad itself, with all 25 winners, is the main picture here (from the campaign’s own site); the names are listed under Winners. Newspapers named Inar Zhang (Mercer Island), Heather Adams (Centennial High School), Laura Bellamy (Duluth Denfeld High School) and Devin Guillory (McKinley High School, Baton Rouge), according to the research report; the ad prints Heather Lee Adams of Boise, Idaho.

Winners

2009 SAMMY winners as printed in the ad (25)

Heather Lee Adams — Boise, Idaho
Laura Bellamy — Duluth, Minnesota
Hannah Connealy — Whitman, Nebraska
Lindsay Danielson — Osceola, Wisconsin
Jacquelyn Davis — League City, Texas
Summer Joy Dupler — Beverly Hills, Florida
Elliot Toy Feng — Albuquerque, New Mexico
Devin Guillory — Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Lauren Gustafson — Columbus, Indiana
Arthur Stewart Kerr — Lake Forest, Illinois
Skyler Lashley — Lingle, Wyoming
Alex Lendrum — Phoenix, Arizona
Amundam (Moonie) Mancho — Budd Lake, New Jersey
Libby Marden — Overland Park, Kansas
Matt Mulligan — Durango, Colorado
Brandon Parker — Las Vegas, Nevada
Christian Roehmer — Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
Andrea Schaefer — Enterprise, Oregon
Rachel L. Schneider — Sanford, Maine
Shari’ Nicole Thomas — Steubenville, Ohio
Clara R. Tsao — Moraga, California
Caroline Weaver — South Burlington, Vermont
Rachel Elizabeth Wein — Perryville, Maryland
Ge “Andy” Zhang — Marietta, Georgia
Inar Zhang — Mercer Island, Washington

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Inar Zhang — contemporary milk-moustache portrait lead

Format:SAMMY winner milk-moustache portrait / contemporary press image· English

Mercer Island Reporter explicitly identifies its on-page image as Mercer Island High School senior Inar Zhang wearing the trademark 'milk-moustache'. This is stronger visual evidence for the 2009 winner class, but it is not labeled as the full June 26 USA TODAY group ad until that printed ad is recovered.

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Where it was published

Publication	Issue/date	Format	Source	Notes
USA Today	Jun 26, 2009 find this issue	Special campaign / contest winners	official USDA report	USDA confirms the 25 winners appeared in a special Milk Mustache advertisement; contemporaneous winner coverage supplies the June 26 USA Today date.
Sports Illustrated	2009 issue/date unresolved find this issue	Special campaign / contest winners	official USDA report	Official USDA report explicitly lists Sports Illustrated as a publication carrying the 2009 SAMMY special Milk Mustache advertisement.
ESPN magazine	2009 issue/date unresolved find this issue	Special campaign / contest winners	official USDA report	Official USDA report explicitly lists ESPN magazines as carrying the 2009 SAMMY special Milk Mustache advertisement.

Contemporary winner confirmation

Two independent 2009 winner reports sharpen the surviving evidence. Northwest Nazarene University states that Heather Adams and the other SAMMY winners would wear the Milk Mustache in the Body By Milk ad appearing in USA TODAY on June 26, 2009, and quotes Adams describing it as her own Milk Mustache ad. Mercer Island Reporter separately documents Inar Zhang wearing the trademark milk-moustache and gives the same June 26 USA TODAY placement. These are period confirmations and individual-winner visuals, not substitutes for the missing complete 25-winner ad.

Heather Adams — NNU, June 2009 Inar Zhang — Mercer Island Reporter

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About this entry

2009 SAMMY Winners is an entry filed under SAMMY / student-athlete winners dated 2009, filed in the collection “Contest Winners” of the Milk Mustache Database, which lists 2,339 entries from the got milk? and Milk Mustache campaigns. Type: Special campaign / contest winners. Recorded appearances: USA Today (Jun 26, 2009 find this issue); Sports Illustrated (2009 issue/date unresolved find this issue); ESPN magazine (2009 issue/date unresolved find this issue).