United States Olympic & Paralympic Endowment Announces Award Winners

Five recipients of awards will be recognized by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Endowment for their commitment and contributions to the Olympic and Paralympic movements during the annual awards ceremony on December 6 at the New York Athletic Club in New York City.

Cindy Parlow Cone and Brad Snyder will be the recipients of the George M. Steinbrenner III Sport Leadership Award; Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir will be recognized with the William E. Simon Award and Dr. David Weinstein will be the honoree of the General Douglas MacArthur Award.

Cone was part of the legendary 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup championship team, two Olympic gold medal teams and has been inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Cone made history as the first woman to be elected U.S. Soccer president.

Snyder, a veteran of the U.S. Navy, was injured by an improvised explosive device and sustained complete vision loss. He began swimming as therapy and at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London earned two gold medals and one silver. At the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro he earned three gold medals, one silver medal and broke a world record that had stood for over 30 years. After Rio, he switched sports to triathlon and won gold for at Tokyo 2020.

Lipinski earned the gold medal at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano at the age of 15, the youngest individual gold medalist in Olympic Winter Games history. She is a member of the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame, a two-time Grand Prix final champion and is the first woman to complete a triple loop-triple loop combination in competition. Lipinski is a figure skating analyst for NBC.

Weir is a two-time U.S. Olympian and three-time national champion, claiming the bronze medal at the 2008 world championships. Additionally, he was the 2001 World Junior Figure Skating Championships winner. He serves as NBC’s lead figure skating commentator, an ambassador to the Olympic Winter Games and owns and operates the Johnny Weir Skating Academy.

Weinstein practices shoulder and elbow surgery and sports medicine in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is an associate clinical professor at the University of Colorado. He has been the orthopedic consultant at the United States Olympic & Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs since 1995. Weinstein has been to nine Olympic and Paralympic Games on the medical staff for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams and has provided international medical support for USA Wrestling, USA Basketball and USA Volleyball.