The Sports Star of the Year awards program Wednesday includes a category in which fans can select online the Female Athlete of the Year from a list of five nominees.
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The Sports Star of the Year awards Wednesday at Benaroya Hall includes a category, Top Sports Story of the Year, which is selected via online voting by fans from a list of five nominees.
Former UW pitcher Tim Lincecum, Olympian Apolo Anton Ohno and distance runner Jessica Pixler were the big winners at the 76th Sports Star of the Year.
This is an archival snapshot of a series of Wayback Machine articles by David Eskenazi detailing the first eight decades of the Sports Star of the Year awards program.
Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez has been a big recent winner, taking Pro Athlete of the Year in 2009 and, in 2010, Sports Story of the Year for winning the AL Cy Young Award.
When the Seattlle Post-Intelligencer folded in 2009, the Seattle Sports Commission took over the celebration and Benaroya Hall became the new venue.
The Mariners, who failed to produce a Star of the Year winner until 1989 (Ken Griffey Jr.), dominated the awards in the 1990s, winning in 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1998.
The Seahawks dominated voting in the 1980s, winning in 1983 (Curt Warner), 1984 (Chuck Knox), 1985 (Steve Largent), 1987 (Fredd Young) and 1988 (John L. Williams).
The 1970s saw a tie for first in 1971 and an unprecedented three-way tie for first in 1973 among Bill Fenton, Spencer Haywood and Calvin Jones.
Two women, golfer Anne Decker in 1961 and swimmer Kaye Hall in 1968, won Man of the Year awards in the 1960s, a decade in which Seattle received major league baseball.