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18 unusual facts about Gatorade


AmBev

As the largest PepsiCo bottler outside United States, it sells and distributes PepsiCo products in Brazil and other Latin American countries, includes Pepsi, Lipton Ice Tea and Gatorade by agreement of franchising.

California State Route 60

Though Mrs. Bustamante lost her life, presumably at the moment of impact, Ruby survived on her own for ten days on cups of uncooked Top Ramen noodles and bottles of Gatorade which were in the car.

Carlos Zambrano

Zambrano then threw a ball into left field, hurled his glove into the dugout and repeatedly struck a recently installed Gatorade dispenser in the dugout with a baseball bat while Cubs manager Lou Piniella tried to calm him down.

Chad Steelberg

Others named to the 2009 list include David Berson, executive vice president of program planning and strategy for ESPN; Sarah Robb O'Hagan, chief marketing officer for Gatorade; and Peter Farnsworth, senior vice president of business development for the NBA.

Damarius Bilbo

In football, he was named the Dick Butkus Football Network National High School Player of the Year (after beating out Cedric Benson now of the Cincinnati Bengals), Mississippi Player of the Year by USA Today and Gatorade.

Dana Shires

He was a member of the research team that did the work leading to the invention of Gatorade.

Héctor Soto

On June 25, 2008, Soto announced that he would take part in a promotional campaign for Gatorade.

Isabelle Daniels

She was also listed on a 1992 "Coaches Care Honor Roll" sponsored by Gatorade.

Jackie Warner

The episode aired on May 6, and by May 9 Gatorade, a major sponsor of the show, dropped its sponsorship and publicly criticized the comments about a breast cancer survivor made on the program.

Jeff Allison

In his senior year, Allison was named the 2003 Massachusetts Gatorade High School Baseball Player of the Year and was also named the 2003 Baseball America High School Player of the Year, becoming the first player from Massachusetts to win the honor.

Jon Bond

In 2011, he became the CEO of Big Fuel Communications, a marketing, content distribution, and social media company that served clients including GM, Gatorade, T-Mobile, McDonald's, Budweiser, Yahoo! and more.

Marquette Smith

In 1990, he was named High School Football Player of the Year by Gatorade, and Offensive Player of the Year by USA Today.

Mike Rosenthal

He was tabbed as Indiana's Gatorade Circle of Champions Player of the Year as a senior.

Omar Easy

Easy was named Gatorade and USA Today Massachusetts Player of the Year in 1996 while at Everett High School in Everett, Massachusetts.

Pat Strange

He is the only player who has twice been named the Gatorade Massachusetts Baseball Player of the Year, winning the award in 1997 and 1998.

Plummer Family Helluva Handball Bash

Both beer and Gatorade are served as refreshment for the athletes, even during morning matches.

Sonny Gray

He was voted Gatorade Player of the Year by The Tennessean in 2007 and 2008 for his overall athletic success.

Yeo Hiap Seng

In addition, Yeo's also exclusively manages other international brands such as Red Bull, Gatorade, Evian, Volvic, Uni-President, Allswell, Hain Celestial, and Erika Dairies.


Alli Sports

Under MTV's ownership, Alli also expanded its operations with several new tours, such as the Winter Dew Tour, Gatorade Free Flow Tour, and the AMA Motocross Championship series.

Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio

Kirk Herbstreit, is a Centerville native, and in 1988 was the Gatorade National High School Player of the Year.

Craftsmen Industries

Craftsmen has built vehicles for brands including Anheuser-Busch InBev, Adidas, Burger King, Charmin, Crown Royal, Lowe's, McDonald's, Gatorade, Sprint, The History Channel, Toyota, Xbox, US Cellular and Pringles.

DiGard Motorsports

Gatorade and the number 88 then switched to Cliff Stewart's Pontiac and driver Geoff Bodine.

Golin Harris International

They created "mission control centers" similar to what Pepsi has done for Gatorade in London, New York and San Francisco focused on real-time social media engagement.

Jody Shelley

In a 2008 regular season match against the Dallas Stars, Sean Avery hit Brad Lukowich and after the incident, Shelley and Avery began to throw water and Gatorade at each other while jawing at each other.

Kevin L. Evans

During his tenure at A&M, Evans produced the "If I Could Be Like Mike" Gatorade jingle starring Michael Jordan.

Marion Barber III

During his last season with the Trojans, he amassed 1,778 rushing yards with 18 touchdowns and led his team with 10 interceptions (3 of which came against Gatorade National Player of the Year and future Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer).

Nicole Fawcett

She grew up in Zanesfield, Ohio and was a four year volleyball letterwinner and three year track letterwinner at Benjamin Logan High School near Bellefontaine, Ohio, where she set a school record for kills in a single season for four consecutive years and was the 2004–05 Ohio Gatorade Player of the Year.

Prince Miller

Miller was also named Gatorade State Football Player of the Year, the Orlando Sentinel South Carolina Player of the Year, and was named to the Atlanta Journal-Constitutions Super Southern 100.

Proposition bet

:*Betting on specific aspects of the pageantry surrounding a sporting event, such as a) the duration of the word "brave" in the pregame performance of the U.S. national anthem or b) the color of the Gatorade or other sports drink dumped on the winning team's coach in the traditional practical joke and victory ritual known as Gatorade shower

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However, Robert Rogbergs, an exercise physiologist at the University of New Mexico who studied Gatorade, said that unless someone is exercising or competing in a sporting event for longer than 90 minutes, there is no reason to drink something with excess sugar and electrolytes.

T. J. Gore

Gore attended De La Salle Collegiate High School in Warren, Michigan, for 2 years before transferring to Dakota High School in Macomb, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, where he named to the All-State Team his senior season and was a finalist for Michigan’s Gatorade High School Player of the Year, and played club soccer for the Vardar club, who he helped lead to the Michigan and Midwest Championships in 2005

Wythe County, Virginia

Recently Gatorade and Pepsi manufacturing facilities have located here, primarily due to the ease of access and central location along the Eastern seabord.