Honors and Awards
Hernandez was featured on a box of Wheaties Energy Crunch in December 2001. Hernandez was welcomed into the Wheaties Family by Olympic Champion Mary Lou Retton and Tiger Woods in Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York.
He was also featured in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" and CNN/SI "Faces in the Crowd".
Hernandez has been inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame, the University of Maine at Presque Isle Athletic Hall of Fame, and the Illinois Wrestlers Hall of Fame.
Hernandez holds the distinction of being one of only two master’s division wrestlers in the country to have won gold medals in the three wrestling disciplines: Greco-Roman, Freestyle and Sombo.
Hernandez was selected by the Rotary Club of Washburn, Maine to serve as the Grand Marshall of the 22nd Annual Washburn August Festival Parade in 2002.
In October 2008, Hernandez was featured in the Scholastic textbook publication on the state of Maine called "Maine-America the Beautiful". In the biographical dictionary 'Famous Mainers' section, he is one of 49 other Maine figures featured and one of only five athletes appearing on the pages.
Hernandez was featured in Discover Maine Magazine, “Maine's History Magazine” in 2010.
On November 4, 2010, the President of the American Sambo Association Steve Koepfer announced James "Chico" Hernandez to be the "Pioneer of American Sambo" Award winner for 2009.
Read more about this topic: James Chico Hernandez
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