She has represented Canada at the Winter Olympics four times, capturing three gold and one silver medal and twice being named tournament MVP, and one time at the Summer Olympics in softball.

He also garnered the MVP award in 1979, and, once the three point shot was established for the first time in the Puerto Rican tournament during the 1980 season, he started making shots from behind the three point line too.

He also garnered the MVP award in 1979, and, once the three point shot was established for the first time in the Puerto Rican tournament during the 1980 season, he started making shots from behind the three point line too.

Smith also participated in the 1996 William Jones Cup as a member of USA Basketball, and was named MVP of the tournament after the USA won the gold medal.

He was named tournament MVP, but Canada finished fourth, missing out on the three Olympic spots available.

While playing with the U. S. Olympic Development Program in an under-14 tournament against the youth squads of such traditionally strong Italian teams as Lazio and Juventus, Adu's team won the competition, he led the tournament in scoring, and he was named MVP.

He was team captain, team MVP, All-Area, All-State, and the state basketball tournament MVP.

The men's basketball team has participated in the NCAA tournament on several occasions in past decades ; the 1992 – 1993 team ( led by future NBA MVP Steve Nash ) was one of 6 No. 15 seeds to defeat a No. 2 seed in the tourney.

At the 2005 IIHF World Championship in Austria, Thornton led all scorers with 16 points ( 6 goals and 10 assists ) in 9 games and was named tournament MVP.

The following year, he led Russia to a second straight gold medal over Canada in the 2009 IIHF World Championship and was named the tournament MVP.

He had his most successful season with the team during 1994-95 season where he would notch 94 points, helping the team win the Memorial Cup for a second straight year, and was also awarded the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as tournament MVP.

Scoring two goals in the gold medal game against Finland and 11 points total, Nash was named to the tournament All-Star Team and earned MVP honours.

The team was led by All-Tournament players Jessica Worsley ( who was named the tournament MVP ) and Maria Rodriguez.

Kristina Frahm ( named tournament MVP ) and Maria Rodriguez were named to the All-Tournament team en route to their victory.

Though the team finished in fifth place, he did help hold an undefeated Canada to a 3 – 3 tie in Quebec City in their last game, where a young Fedorov was paired against tournament MVP Wayne Gretzky.

The winner of the CPL Grand Finals event, Johnathan " Fatal1ty " Wendel, went home with the grand prize of $ 150, 000, while Sander " Vo0 " Kaasjager took home the MVP trophy for having the most tournament wins.

He offended many hockey fans by stating publicly that he had played better in the 1976 Canada Cup than Bobby Orr, and that the latter's selection as tournament MVP was for sentimental reasons.

and later refused to shake Richards ' hand after he had been named tournament MVP.

Geoff Snider of Team Canada was named tournament MVP.

Lucic earned the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as tournament MVP, while linemate Michal Repik led the tournament in scoring ( edging Lucic by one goal ) to capture the Ed Chynoweth Trophy.

Her third season ( 2002 – 2003 ) was capped by an honorable mention Associated Press All-American recognition, Big West Player of the Year honors and her second consecutive conference tournament MVP award.

The lean and leathery Oklahoma amateur, who has been playing topnotch tournament golf for many years, refused to let the Masters jitters overtake him and closed the tournament with his second straight 69.

Much research has been carried out on chess, in part because many tournament players are publicly ranked in national and international lists, which makes it possible to compare their levels of expertise.

Since 1995, Costas has also hosted NBC's coverage of the U. S. Open golf tournament.

The World Crokinole Championship ( WCC ) tournament has been held annually since 1999 on the first Saturday of June in Tavistock, Ontario.

The sport has particularly strong followings in the UK, US, New Zealand and Australia ; every four years, these countries play the MacRobertson Shield tournament.

However, little headway has been made to institute a playoff tournament, given the entrenched vested economic interests in the various bowls.

Australia has been the most successful of the five teams to have won the tournament, taking four titles.

In subsequent years, international Test cricket has generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the quadrangular Asian Test Championship in 1999.

A tournament director has the option of enforcing the 2-meter Rule regardless of whether or not the course enforces the rule.

There has been a football tournament at every Summer Olympic Games since 1900, except at the 1932 games in Los Angeles.

The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II, Wilfred Winkenbach devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the 1950s, in which each player selected a team of professional golfers and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end of the tournament would win.

The tournament has become known for the possibility for " minnows " from the lower divisions to become " giant-killers " by eliminating top clubs from the tournament and even theoretically winning the Cup, although lower division teams rarely progress beyond the early stages.

The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.

Indianapolis has played host for the men's tournament on three occasions to date.

Indianapolis has hosted all but one of the women's tournaments since its inception in 1995, and Bankers Life Fieldhouse has hosted every tournament since 2002, as well as the 2000 edition.

Aside from the multitude of regional games held during the NCAA tournament, Indianapolis has hosted six men's NCAA Final Fours ( 1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2010 ) and two women's ( 2005, 2011 ).

She holds the title of International Master ( IM ), and has one of three tournament results ( norms ) necessary to qualify for the International Grandmaster ( GM ) title.

Comparing motherhood to playing chess, Polgár has said that a chess tournament now " feels like a vacation.

Poker has gained in popularity since the beginning of the twentieth century, and has gone from being primarily a recreational activity confined to small groups of mostly male enthusiasts, to a widely popular spectator activity with international audiences and multi-million dollar tournament prizes.

As a result of the Mitchell Report, Clemens has been asked to end his involvement with the Giff Nielsen Day of Golf for Kids charity golf tournament in Houston that he has hosted for four years.