{"id":3677,"date":"2014-11-01T21:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T21:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pritchardwindsurfing.com\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2020-03-08T04:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T04:01:01","slug":"2014-awt-champion-kevin-pritchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pritchardwindsurfing.com\/pw2020\/2014-awt-champion-kevin-pritchard","title":{"rendered":"2014 AWT Champion, Kevin Pritchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an impressive performance for the veteran 38 year old to step up to the plate and claim the AWT crown. Kevin Pritchard had a one track mind all year long, \"I want to beat these kids while I can- they really motivate me to keep charging and pushing myself. I have won a lot of titles in my day and this was definitely a fun one for me! I don't really have any pressure to win, I just love it. I love the sport, I love going to the beach everyday to \"train\" and being around the buzz all the time pushing my limits!\"<\/p>\n<p>Being his brother and watching him grow up and compete, I could see the fire in his eyes. I know that look he gets. He was cool, calm and collected- knew what he had to do and simply went out and did it in style! The only thing he lacked was a watch..... really? Ha ha.... Yeah, so I gave him my lucky Casio and it seemed to work some magic for him!<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to you bro- a true inspiration to chasing the dream and ripping harder with age! Keep going.....<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks&nbsp;<a title=\"Fish Bowl Diaries\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fishbowldiaries?fref=photo\">Fish Bowl Diaries<\/a>&nbsp;for the incredible daily pics!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3678\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3678\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3678\" src=\"http:\/\/pritchardwindsurfing.com\/blog2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/KP-AIR-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Big Points\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Points<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3679\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3679\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3679\" src=\"http:\/\/pritchardwindsurfing.com\/blog2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/KP-Hack-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Throwing some tail\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Throwing some tail<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3681\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3681\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3681\" src=\"http:\/\/pritchardwindsurfing.com\/blog2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/KP-one-hand-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"One Handed- thank you very much\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One Handed- thank you very much<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an impressive performance for the veteran 38 year old to step up to the plate and claim the AWT crown. Kevin Pritchard had a one track mind all year long, &#8220;I want to beat these kids while I can- they really motivate me to keep charging and pushing myself. I have won a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news-article"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2014 AWT Champion, Kevin Pritchard - Pritchard Windsurfing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pritchardwindsurfing.com\/pw2020\/2014-awt-champion-kevin-pritchard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2014 AWT Champion, Kevin Pritchard - Pritchard Windsurfing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What an impressive performance for the veteran 38 year old to step up to the plate and claim the AWT crown. 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