APLINGTON-PARKERSBURG, Iowa –

The family of murdered Aplington-Parkersburg football manager Ed Thomas is a target of a ” Arthur Ashe Courage Award.”

The Thomas family supposed it during Wednesday night’s annual ESPN “ESPY” Awards.

A video reverence showed how Thomas rallied a Parkersburg village after a lethal EF-5 hurricane in 2008, explained his comfortless genocide a following year, as well as praised a strength of Thomas’ family.

The Northern Iowa men’s basketball group additionally perceived a “Best Upset” endowment for violence series a single ranked Kansas in a NCAA tournament.