Wolakota Awards

     

2020 Wolakota Awards

As with years past, the 2020 Awards are based on:

 

  • Raising awareness for social issues while sending Challengers through some of the most beautiful places in North America.
  • Inspiring a willingness and desire to accept personal accountability with a sense of duty and principle; to cultivate wisdom, community and compassion and to display and foster respect, harmony, peace and friendship.
  • Creating an army of warriors with the strength to face adversity; the character to make sacrifices and the desire to come to the aid of others in need.
  • • Empowering others to overcome obstacles that have physically, mentally or financially challenged them and know they are not in it alone. We are the vehicle that's helps move them forward and refocus them toward success.

Selecting the top nominations for these awards is one of the hardest things the Board of Directors at the conclusion of each Challenge.

In recognition of their demonstration of these Core Values we’d like to acknowledge the following riders of the 2020 Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge™.


RESPECT – Patrick Cornell - #996

HONOR – Cheyenne Beatty - #1027

INTEGRITY – Rob Saunook - #814

COMPASSION – Cathy Lynn Carter - #925

PERSEVERANCE – Louis Preciado - #917

SACRIFICE
To the fiancé of fallen rider Todd Moreland (#909), Buffy Adkins



To the our other fallen riders...

 

  • Charles Lynn (#232) – March 10, 1966 to June 26, 2010
  • Kenneth Green (#354) – March 4, 1947 to July 4, 2010
  • John Anderson (#737) – July 22, 1960 to June 26, 2013
  • Newton Pereira (#691) – August 24, 1956 to July 27, 2014
  • Joseph Finck (#868) – December 26, 1962 to July 24, 2018
  • Philip Grove (#1083) – June 28, 1943 to July 1, 2022
  • Paul Denton (#1093) – September 1, 1967 to July 2, 2022

These were by no means the only Challengers who demonstrated these core values. Let us also remember the Founder of the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge™ James Red Cloud – April 2, 1955 to June 29, 2017 and those whose lives are forever changed as a result of tragic accidents while participating in this formidable event.

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