What did you do with all your old sports trophies?

They're sitting in a box somewhere. I still accumulate them. Worse now, I can't even run a 5k without getting a finisher's medal. You could just throw them out I guess. No one will ever care about them. Save the ones from anything memorable like state meet, probably to throw out at a later date.

I've been taking all the placards off of my trophies. I threw out/recycled the rest of the trophies and am planning on putting all the important placards on one plaque that I could hang in my office.

I have no idea what to do with all my medals.

I threw them away. But I've kept my coaching awards....so far.

Mine are proudly displayed upstairs above the basement in my moms living room.

I gave all of them to a charity that gives a second chance for young people with drug and legal problems. I also gave away all the tee shirts. Did not take a deduction on my taxes. Don't know what they did with them.

Ask around - many youth organizations take them and put new plates on them etc. Special olympics folks took a bunch one time.

Kind of crazy but i put a box out at a garage sale once and moms were glad to send their kids over to go through them and stay out of their hair for a few minutes. Made 10 or 15 bucks sellin em for a dollar each.

My parents used to have them in their guest room where my older brother moved into for a while. I remember one of his freind went you, "You are really proud of your brother's acheivements." Now they rent out the room on Air BnB. Hopefully, no traveler decideds to steal my #4th place D1 800 medal!!!

I donated mine and my husbands to an area middle school in need. The placards get popped off and they are replaced by a local trophy shop. The kids get trophies, it costs the school a fraction of what new trophies would have cost. I'm sure there is a school in need somewhere near you. Good luck.

I started to get tired of them in high school. I realized then that they make an amazing hiding spot for things you don't want your parents to find. The ones that are made of the base with a tube sticking up and a little figure on top can be unscrewed, then things placed inside the tube. Excellent spot to hide a little weed so your parents don't find it.

My mom probably wondered why I started dusting that shelf, but it was because I didn't want only one trophy to be dust free, since that seemed like a give-away.

Now that I'm an adult, they're useless, of course.

I have a display case for them. Actually, a few display cases-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMVLaplbbNg

If the trophies weren't in a case, the goat might eat them.

Never won any and I don't think any of you did either.

Kept a couple. Put new labels on a couple and award them to the winning side in backyard games with my kids. Tossed the rest.

I displayed them on the kitchen table, took a picture of them all for later reference, then donated/threw them out. Only kept all american and other big meet awards.

MikeMilton55523 wrote:

My parents used to have them in their guest room where my older brother moved into for a while. I remember one of his freind went you, "You are really proud of your brother's acheivements." Now they rent out the room on Air BnB. Hopefully, no traveler decideds to steal my #4th place D1 800 medal!!!

Nice! This is why I read these forums. Funniest thing in a while.

Those belong in a museum. I love that he cares about his trophies. Why are you star runners throwing them in the trash? Why give out prizes if no one cares?

I put them in a box out on the street for garbage pickup.

A neighbor 5 doors down was/is a runner and she really liked the looks of one of my running trophies so she took it.

How do I know? She told me at the block party.

It was a little odd.

I took the plaques off mine and gave them to the local grade school.

They award them out as positive reinforcement rewards to kids that do things similar to being very polite, generous, etc. They also have given them to kids that show improvement (such as moving from an F to a D) to acknowledge their effort.

You could also put on a race and charge a fair amount of money advertising that awards go 'x' deep. Supposedly the #1 thing that most runners say they want to win in a race is a trophy. This is because most runners have never won any type of award in a race.