Sending out trophies and getting to experience the joy it brings others will absolutely never get old. Delivering smiles is not just our tagline; it’s genuinely the reason we do what we do. Our Random Acts of Trophy-ness “Show Us Your Sue” campaign to deliver smiles — and trophies — to people who make the […]
Show Us Your Sue: The Only Trophy Awarded to Smilers, Dreamers and Day-Makers
Carla Horn’s Instagram bio could easily be mistaken for Sue Heck’s. It reads “Big Smiler! Believer in Kindness, Goodness & Making Someone’s Day.” It doesn’t get more Sue Heck than that! For those of you who don’t yet know, Sue Heck (the perpetually optimistic fictional character from ABC’s The Middle) inspired Trophy Central’s Random Acts […]
Shining a Light to Save Lives: Introducing the Random Acts of Trophy-ness Awareness Award
Now that it’s officially spring and the weather is warming up, most people are trading in sweaters for swimsuits and fireside reading for poolside recreation. Like most, team Trophy Central enjoys partaking in warm weather activities, from baseball games and picnics to surfing and hiking. Spending time in the sun is a whole lot of fun but it […]
Rewarding Kindness Toward Animals: Our Latest Trophy Winner Announced!
It’s hard to believe we just awarded the 17th Random Acts of Trophy-ness trophy! We started our Random Acts of Trophy-ness campaign with two goals in mind: To find people (and animals!) who are changing the world by being themselves. Inspired by Sue Heck’s character from The Middle, who is perpetually optimistic and who never, […]
Winning Hearts and Winning Trophies: Introducing the “Heart as Big as the Ocean” Award
Mariann Asbury, our January Random Acts of Trophy-ness winner, deserves a trophy for almost every reason we could imagine. It was hard to find a suitable name for her trophy, but we think we found it in this: A Heart as Big as the Ocean Award. And it was a recent episode of ABC’s “The […]
Rainbow Bright ‘Sweetsie Sue’ Becomes Youngest Winner of Our Random Acts of Trophy-Ness Award
This holiday season, Trophy Central wants you to bring your some year-end joy. Ten-year-old Ily Scott, this month’s winner of our Random Acts of Trophy-ness “Show Us Your Sue” award, will help everyone ring in 2017 with a big smile. Ily lives in a crowded, sometimes chaotic household. But she never lets any of the […]
Oh-So-Sue and a Trophy Too! Meet Our Latest Random Acts of Trophy-ness Winner
Trophy Central is delighted to announce the latest winner of our Random Acts of Trophy-ness “Show Us Your Sue” award. Congratulations, Sherry Lee White, on winning Trophy Central’s award for “Excellence In Inspiring Others to Say ‘Yes’ to the Life of Their Dreams.” A mother of four, Sherry Lee White is a self-proclaimed “Joy Junkie […]
Let Your Inner Beauty Shine: Rewarding Body Positivity with our Latest “Show Us Your Sue” Trophy!
Trophy Central is thrilled to announce our latest winner of our “Show Us Your Sue” Random Acts of Trophy-ness award. Show Us Your Sue peeps: please give a warm welcome to Krystian Leonard, who won a trophy for “Excellence in Inspiring Girls of All Ages To Love Their Bodies and Let Their Inner Beauty Shine.” […]
The One and Only ANGEL Award Goes to… a Velvet Hippo Who Is Making the World a Better Place — For Pit Bulls and For Everyone
“Hip, hip, hippo!” That was Pit Bull lover and advocate Bri Prooker’s enthusiastic cheer when Trophy Central granted her and her family’s request to make “an extra special award for an extra special velvet hippo named Angel.” Bri Prooker, her sister Kelsey Prooker and mom Katherine Kotaw are the human members of the “KOTAW Girl […]
Sing a Song of Good Cheer: The Trophy-Worthy (KOTAW) Gang is Here!
Roll out the barrel, we’ll have a barrel of fun Roll out the barrel, we’ve got the blues on the run Zing boom tararrel, ring out a song of good cheer Now’s the time to roll the barrel, for the gang’s all here “Beer Barrel Polka,” composed by Jaromír Vejvoda Katherine Kotaw was nominated for […]
