Spong Hill is an Anglo-Saxon cemetery site located at North Elmham in Norfolk, England. The largest Early Anglo-Saxon burial site ever excavated, it contains within it 2259 cremations and 57 inhumations. The site at Spong Hill consisted of two cemeteries, a large cremation cemetery and a smaller, 6th century cemetery of 57 inhumations. Several of the graves were covered by small barrows and others were marked by the use of coffins.

Extensive excavations of the Early Saxon cemetery and part of the associated settlement revealed evidence of Early Prehistoric occupation on the hill top, dating from the Mesolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Excavation of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery also revealed extensive occupation evidence: late Iron Age and Roman enclosures and field boundaries, an early Roman kiln, and a small settlement of 'sunken huts' and post-hole buildings possibly contemporary with the cemetery.

Notable finds[link]

Spong Man[link]

"Spong Man" is a pottery lid of a cremation urn in the shape of a seated figure. It was excavated in 1979, and is unique in Early Saxon archaeology, being the earliest Anglo-Saxon three-dimensional human figure that has ever been found.^[1] An image of the pottery lid can be seen here: [1].

Stamped urns[link]

Three 5th century cremation urns from the Spong Hill site bear the impression of the debated term alu by "the same runic stamp" in mirror-runes.^[2]

See also[link]

• Sutton Hoo

References[link]

Bibliography[link]

Coordinates: 52°44′13″N 0°56′02″E / 52.737°N 0.934°E / 52.737; 0.934

John Shelby Spong
Retired Bishop of Newark
Spong in 2006
Church	Episcopal Church in the United States of America
See	Episcopal Diocese of Newark
In Office	1979–2000
Predecessor	George E. Rath
Successor	John P. Croneberger
Orders
Ordination	1955
Consecration	June 12, 1976
Personal details
Born	(1931-06-16) June 16, 1931 (age 81) Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Previous post	Bishop Coadjutor of Newark

John Shelby "Jack" Spong (born June 16, 1931) is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church. He was formerly the Bishop of Newark (based in Newark, New Jersey). He is a liberal theologian, religion commentator and author. He calls for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief away from theism and from traditional doctrines.^[1]

Background[link]

Spong was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and educated in Charlotte public schools. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1952, and received his Master of Divinity degree in 1955 from the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. That seminary and Saint Paul's College have both conferred on him honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees. He wrote: "[I have] immerse[d] myself in contemporary Biblical scholarship at such places as Union Theological Seminary in New York City, Yale Divinity School, Harvard Divinity School and the storied universities in Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge."^[2]

Spong served as rector of St. Joseph's Church in Durham, North Carolina from 1955 to 1957; rector of Calvary Parish, Tarboro, North Carolina from 1957 to 1965; rector of St. John's Church in Lynchburg, Virginia from 1965 to 1969; and rector of St. Paul's Church in Richmond, Virginia from 1969 to 1976. He has held visiting positions and given lectures at major American theological institutions, most prominently at Harvard Divinity School. He retired in 2000.

Bishop Spong during CrossWalk America, 2006

Recipient of many awards, including 1999 Humanist of the Year,^[3] Spong is a contributor to the Living the Questions DVD program and has been a guest on numerous national television broadcasts (including The Today Show, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, Dateline, 60 Minutes, and Larry King Live). Spong's calendar has him lecturing around the world.^[4]

Spong is the cousin of former Virginia Democratic Senator William B. Spong, Jr. who defeated the incumbent Absalom Willis Robertson, the father of television evangelist Pat Robertson.

A play about the life of Spong, called A Pebble In My Shoe, has been written by Colin Cox and produced by Will & Company. Spong has seen the play at least a half dozen times at different places in the United States.

Writings[link]

Spong's writings rely on Biblical and non-Biblical sources and are influenced by modern critical analysis of these sources (see especially Spong, 1991). He is representative of a stream of thought with roots in the medieval universalism of Peter Abelard and the existentialism of Paul Tillich, whom he has called his favorite theologian.^[5]

A prominent theme in Spong's writing is that the popular and literal interpretations of Christian scripture are not sustainable and do not speak honestly to the situation of modern Christian communities. He believes in a more nuanced approach to scripture, informed by scholarship and compassion, which can be consistent with both Christian tradition and contemporary understandings of the universe. He believes that theism has lost credibility as a valid conception of God's nature. He states that he is a Christian because he believes that Jesus Christ fully expressed the presence of a God of compassion and selfless love and that this is the meaning of the early Christian proclamation, "Jesus is Lord" (Spong, 1994 and Spong, 1991). Elaborating on this last idea he affirms that Jesus was adopted by God as his predilect son, thus embracing (at least at linguistic level) a form of the ancient adoptionist heresy (Born of a Woman 1992), and yet in an orthodox way he says that this would be the way God was fully incarnated in Jesus Christ..^[1] He rejects the historical truth claims of some Christian doctrines, such as the Virgin Birth (Spong, 1992) and the bodily resurrection of Jesus (Spong, 1994). In 2000, Spong was a critic of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Roman Catholic Church's declaration Dominus Iesus, because it reaffirmed the Catholic doctrine that the Roman Catholic Church is the one true Church and, perhaps even more importantly, that Jesus Christ is the one and only savior for humanity.^[6]

Spong has also been a strong proponent of feminism, gay rights, and racial equality within both the church and society at large.^[7] Towards these ends, he calls for a new Reformation, in which many of Christianity's basic doctrines should be reformulated.^[1]

Criticism[link]

Spong's ideas have received strong criticism from some other theologians, notably the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams (when Williams was the Bishop of Monmouth), describing his twelve theses as embodying "confusion and misinterpretation".^[8]

Twelve points[link]

1. Theism, as a way of defining God, is dead. So most theological God-talk is today meaningless. A new way to speak of God must be found.
2. Since God can no longer be conceived in theistic terms, it becomes nonsensical to seek to understand Jesus as the incarnation of the theistic deity. So the Christology of the ages is bankrupt.
3. The Biblical story of the perfect and finished creation from which human beings fell into sin is pre-Darwinian mythology and post-Darwinian nonsense.
4. The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
5. The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.
6. The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.
7. Resurrection is an action of God. Jesus was raised into the meaning of God. It therefore cannot be a physical resuscitation occurring inside human history.
8. The story of the Ascension assumed a three-tiered universe and is therefore not capable of being translated into the concepts of a post-Copernican space age.
9. There is no external, objective, revealed standard written in scripture or on tablets of stone that will govern our ethical behavior for all time.
10. Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
11. The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.
12. All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

Publications[link]

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• 1973 – Honest Prayer, ISBN 1-878282-18-2
• 1974 – This Hebrew Lord, ISBN 0-06-067520-9
• 1975 – Christpower, ISBN 1-878282-11-5
• 1975 – Dialogue: In Search of Jewish-Christian Understanding (co-authored with Rabbi Jack Daniel Spiro), ISBN 1-878282-16-6
• 1976 – Life Approaches Death: A Dialogue on Ethics in Medicine
• 1977 – The Living Commandments, ISBN 1-878282-17-4
• 1980 – The Easter Moment, ISBN 1-878282-15-8
• 1983 – Into the Whirlwind: The Future of the Church, ISBN 1-878282-13-1
• 1986 – Beyond Moralism: A Contemporary View of the Ten Commandments (co-authored with Denise G. Haines, Archdeacon), ISBN 1-878282-14-X
• 1987 – Consciousness and Survival: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the possibility of Life Beyond Biological Death (edited by John S. Spong, introduction by Claiborne Pell), ISBN 0-943951-00-3
• 1988 – Living in Sin? A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality, ISBN 0-06-067507-1
• 1991 – Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture, ISBN 0-06-067518-7
• 1992 – Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus, ISBN 0-06-067523-3
• 1994 – Resurrection: Myth or Reality? A Bishop's Search for the Origins of Christianity, ISBN 0-06-067546-2
• 1996 – Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes, ISBN 0-06-067557-8
• 1999 – Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile, ISBN 0-06-067536-5
• 2001 – Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love and Equality, ISBN 0-06-067539-X
• 2002 – A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith Is Dying and How a New Faith Is Being Born, ISBN 0-06-067063-0
• 2005 – The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love, ISBN 0-06-076205-5
• 2007 – Jesus for the Non-Religious, ISBN 0-06-076207-1
• 2009 – Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell, ISBN 0-06-076206-3
• 2011 - Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World, ISBN 978-0-06-201128-2

References[link]

• Career dates retrieved from Bishop of Newark official website and Spong's official biography on August 30, 2006.

External links[link]

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• Spong's official website
• Antonella Gambotto-Burke on John Shelby Spong
• ABC Radio audio interview with Spong
• "A Call for a New Reformation" by John S. Spong
• Compass interview with Bishop John Shelby Spong
• Minnesota Public Radio interview with Bishop Spong
• Scott Stephens' interview with John Shelby Spong: "I am very orthodox after all!"
• The Call of Jesus, an excerpt from John Shelby Spong's lecture "Jesus for the Non-Religious"
• Beyond Theism, an excerpt from John Shelby Spong's lecture "Jesus for the Non-Religious"

Criticism[link]

• Critical review of Jesus for the Non-Religious
• Jesus for the Non-Religious (review) - Sydney Anglicans website
• ‘Jesus For The Non-Religious’ Described As Gutting The Christian Faith
• What’s Wrong With Bishop Spong? Laymen Rethink the Scholarship of John Shelby Spong
• Review of Bishop Spong’s Jesus for the Non Religious:An Historical Approach by John Dickson (author)

John T. Shelby (born February 23, 1958 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1981 to 1991. His nickname was "T-Bone" for his slight frame. He currently is a coach for the Milwaukee Brewers

Biography[link]

Education[link]

John Shelby is a 1976 graduate of Henry Clay High School in Lexington, KY, where he played baseball (shortstop) and basketball and was an all-area performer. After high school he played one year of baseball at Columbia State Community College in Tennessee.

Baseball career[link]

Playing career[link]

Over his 11-year career he played with three different teams: the Baltimore Orioles (1981–1987), Los Angeles Dodgers (1987–1990) and Detroit Tigers (1990–1991). Shelby was a member of two World Series-winning teams, the 1983 Orioles and the 1988 Dodgers. When he was traded to the Dodgers during the 1987 season, the team was so desperate for a center fielder that he was rushed into uniform and into his first game. There was not even time to put his name on the back of his uniform. He played the entire game as the only member of the Dodgers without his name stitched on his uniform. During Game Four of the 1988 National League Championship Series, he drew a crucial walk off Dwight Gooden in the top of the ninth inning, allowing Mike Scioscia to come up and hit a game-tying home run, paving the way for the game-winning home run by Kirk Gibson in the top of the twelfth inning. On June 3, 1989 he batted 0 for 10 in a 22 inning game vs. the Houston Astros.

Coaching career[link]

He is currently the outfield instructor for the Brewers.^[1] He has also served as a coach for the Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles.

Family[link]

His older son, John Shelby III, is currently in playing in Minor League Baseball for the Gateway Grizzlies of the Frontier League. His younger son, JaVon Shelby, is a student and baseball player at another high school in Lexington, Tates Creek High School. His nephew, Josh Harrison, is currently playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference

For the suburb of Bracknell in the UK, see Lawrence Hill, Bracknell Forest, for the inner city area of Bristol, UK see Lawrence Hill, Bristol.

Lawrence Hill
Born	1957
Occupation	novelist, non-fiction writer
Nationality	Canadian
Period	1990s-present
Notable work(s)	Black Berry, Sweet Juice, The Book of Negroes

Lawrence Hill (born 1957) is an award-winning Canadian novelist and memoirist. He is best known for the 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and the 2007 novel The Book of Negroes.

Personal life[link]

Hill was born in 1957 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, the son of American immigrants to Canada — a black father and a white mother. Hill has written in his bestselling memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice of how his parents - social activist Donna Hill and social scientist and public servant Daniel G. Hill - met, married, left the United States the day after they married in 1953 in Washington, D.C., and raised a family in Toronto. Growing up in the 1960s in Don Mills, a predominantly white suburb of Toronto, Hill was very influenced by his parents' human rights work and would go on to explore in his writing themes related to identity and belonging.^[1][2]

Hill earned a B.A. in economics from Laval University in Quebec City and an M.A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He was a reporter with The Globe and Mail and parliamentary correspondent for The Winnipeg Free Press.

Having lived and worked in Baltimore, in Spain and in France, Hill currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with his wife and five children. His brother is singer-songwriter Dan Hill.

Writing career[link]

Hill is the author of seven books. His three novels are Some Great Thing (1992), Any Known Blood (1999) and The Book of Negroes (2007), which was published in the United States under the title Someone Knows My Name.^[3] This third novel has been his most successful to date, winning several awards.

His non-fiction books are: Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians (1993), Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association (1996), Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (2001), and The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq, with Joshua Key (2007).

He was appointed one of six Writers in Residence with the Toronto District School Board from October 2011 to May 2012.

Activism[link]

In 1968, Hill signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.^[4]

In 2007, Hill collaborated with former US-Army soldier (now deserter) Joshua Key to write Key's account of the Iraq War. His book The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq is the result of their interviews and meetings.

Lawrence Hill has a deep interest in the advancement of women and girls in Africa. He is an honorary patron of Canadian Crossroads International, and he volunteered overseas with Crossroads three times - to Niger, Mali and Cameroon in the 1970s and '80s. This experience had a profound impact on him as a person and as a writer. His first published work of fiction, a short story called "My Side of the Fence", recounted his experiences with Crossroads in Niger.

Awards[link]

The Book of Negroes, published in the US under the title Someone Knows My Name, won the 2008 overall Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, the 2007 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the 2008 Evergreen Award from the Ontario Library Association, and CBC Radio's 2009 edition of Canada Reads, and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and was longlisted for the Giller Prize and the IMPAC Award. Hill was named 2009 Author of the Year by Go On Girl!, the largest African-American women's book club.^[5]

He won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best essay for his work entitled "Is Africa's Pain Black America's Burden?", published in The Walrus (February 2005). Hill also wrote the screenplay for Seeking Salvation, a 90-minute documentary film about the Black church in Canada. Seeking Salvation (Travesty Productions, Toronto, 2004) won the American Wilbur Award for best national television documentary in 2005.

In 2010, he was awarded the Bob Edwards Award from the Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary. The award "recognizes a literary figure who has demonstrated outstanding curiosity and respect for freedom of expression".^[6]

He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo (2010-11).

Works[link]

Novels[link]

• Some Great Thing (Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1992)
• Any Known Blood (HarperCollins Canada, Toronto, 1997; William Morrow, New York, 1999)
• The Book of Negroes (W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2007); published as Someone Knows My Name in the U.S.A, Australia, and New Zealand (HarperCollins Canada, Toronto, 2007)

Non-fiction[link]

• Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians (Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1993)
• Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association (Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1996)
• Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2001)
• The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq, with Joshua Key (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007, ISBN 0-87113-954-5; Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2007, ISBN 0-88784-208-9; Melbourne: Text Publishing Co., 2007)

Film[link]

• Seeking Salvation: A History of the Black Church in Canada, Travesty Productions, Toronto, 2004 (winner of 2005 American Wilbur Award for best national television documentary)

References[link]

1. ^ "Lawrence Hill - Biography".
2. ^ A tribute: "Dad will always 'live within us' - A son remembers Daniel Hill III, Activist, storyteller, champion,inspirer", Toronto Star, July 6, 2003.
3. ^ "Why I'm not allowed my book title", Books blog, 20 May 2008, guardian.co.uk
4. ^ “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest”, January 30, 1968 New York Post.
5. ^ The Go On Girl! Book Club Annual Author Awards.
6. ^ "Writer Hill honoured by Calgary theatre group", CBC News, October 4, 2010.

External links[link]

• Lawrence Hill official website.
• CBC The Hour Interview, June 10, 2009.
• Lawrence Hill at Writers in Electronic Residence
• Works by or about Lawrence Hill in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• CBC Digital Archives – Lawrence Hill, Canada Reads author
• Lawrence Hill Papers, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
• Mark Medley, "Meet You At The Door: a Q&A with Lawrence Hill", The Afterword, National Post, December 16, 2010.
• "The Route of the Matter - Amatoritero Ede & Tom Ue in Conversation with Lawrence Hill, Novelist, essayist and Script Writer", Maple Tree LiterarySupplement, August 2010.

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Competitor for  United States
Women's Grappling
World Championships
Silver	2008 Lucerne	-72 kg (No-Gi)

Miesha Tate (pronounced /ˈmiːʃə/; born August 18, 1986) is a professional mixed martial artist. She is the former Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion and the current Freestyle Cage Fighting Women's Bantamweight Champion. She has also competed and won a silver medal in the FILA Grappling Championships.^[2]

Tate is currently the #6-ranked pound-for-pound female MMA fighter in the world by MMARising.com^[3] and the #3-ranked 135-pound female fighter according to the Unified Women's MMA Rankings.^[4]

Early life[link]

Tate wrestled on the boys' wrestling team in high school. In 2005, she won the high school women's state championship and went on to win nationals at the World Team Trials in the 158 lb division.^[2]

While attending Central Washington University Miesha's colleague, Rosalia Watson, encouraged her to attend the mixed martial arts club with her. Soon after attending, Tate officially joined the mixed martial arts sport club at Central Washington University that was run by her current boyfriend and trainer, Bryan Caraway.^[5] She amassed a 5-1 amateur record in MMA before turning pro.

Mixed martial arts career[link]

Tate debuted in mixed martial arts in 2007 at the one-night HOOKnSHOOT Women's Grand Prix. She defeated Jan Finney in the opening round, but was knocked out later in the night by a head kick from eventual tournament champion Kaitlin Young.

On June 27, 2008, Tate faced Cung Le protégé Elaina Maxwell at Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Thomson.^[6] Tate moved up in weight for the fight and defeated Maxwell by Unanimous Decision.^[7]

Tate won three more times and captured the FCF Women's Bantamweight Championship by defeating Liz Carreiro at Freestyle Cage Fighting on April 4, 2009.^[8]

She returned to Strikeforce at Strikeforce Challengers: Evangelista vs. Aina on May 15, 2009. Tate was originally scheduled to face Kim Couture, but Couture withdrew from the fight due to undisclosed reasons and Tate was matched up against undefeated Canadian Sarah Kaufman instead.^[9] In a competitive fight, Tate was defeated by Unanimous Decision, but it marked the first time that Kaufman had gone to a decision.^[10]

Tate knocked out Sarah Oriza eight seconds into the second round at a CageSport MMA event on October 3, 2009.^[11]

She successfully defended her FCF title by defeating Valerie Coolbaugh in the first round by armbar at FCF 38 on January 16, 2010.^[12]

Tate faced Zoila Gurgel at Strikeforce Challengers: Johnson vs. Mahe on March 26, 2010.^[2] Tate won the fight by armbar submission in the second round.^[13]

Tate is scheduled to be part of the one-night Strikeforce 135-pound women's tournament on August 13, 2010 at Strikeforce Challengers: Riggs vs. Taylor.^[14] A random drawing was held on the day of the weigh-ins to determine first-round matchups^[15] and Tate faced Maiju Kujala in the opening round of the tournament.^[16]

Tate defeated Kujala by unanimous decision after two rounds to advance to the tournament final. She then defeated Hitomi Akano by unanimous decision after three rounds to become Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Tournament Champion.^[17]

Tate was scheduled to challenge Marloes Coenen for the Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Championship on March 5, 2011, but withdrew from the fight after suffering a knee injury in training.^[18]

In order to unify all weight classes, Zuffa changed the title held by Marloes Coenen from Welterweight to Bantamweight prior to the fight taking place. Tate's fight with Marloes Coenen for the Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Championship was rescheduled for Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Henderson on July 30, 2011. Tate defeated Coenen via submission (arm-triangle choke) to become the new Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion. “I think I’m not in reality quite yet,” Tate said shortly after winning the women’s bantamweight title. “I can’t believe that I have a belt to take home with me. I really had to dig deep those last couple rounds. Like I said, I had a tough end to my training camp, but I just feel like I went out there and I did what I needed to do and I won the fight and I’m world champion.”^[19]

Tate's first defense of her Strikeforce title was against Ronda Rousey on March 3, 2012 in Columbus, Ohio.^[20] The fight served as the main event of Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey.^[21] She lost the fight via submission in the first round due to an armbar after appearing to dislocate her elbow.^[22]

Personal life[link]

Tate is dating fellow Team Alpha Male fighter Bryan Caraway.^[5]

Film[link]

Tate is featured in the mixed martial arts documentary Fight Life, set for release in the summer of 2011. The film is directed by indie filmmaker James Z. Feng and produced by RiLL Films.^[23]

Championships and accomplishments[link]

Mixed martial arts[link]

• Strikeforce
  • Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Championship (One time)
  • Strikeforce 2010 Women's Bantamweight Tournament Winner

• Freestyle Cage Fighting
  • FCF Women's Bantamweight Championship (One time)

• HOOKnSHOOT
  • BodogFIGHT 2007 Women's Bantamweight Tournament Semifinalist

• World MMA Awards
  • 2011 Female Fighter of the Year

• Women's MMA Awards
  • 2011 Submission of the Year vs. Marloes Coenen on July 30
  • 2010 Female Fighter of the Year
  • 2010 Female Bantamweight of the Year
  • 2009 Submission of the Year vs. Lizbeth Carreiro on July 4

• ESPN
  • 2011 Submission of the Month vs. Marloes Coenen on July 30

Submission grappling[link]

• International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles
  • 2008 FILA Grappling World Championships Senior Women' No-Gi Silver Medalist

• USA Wrestling
  • FILA World Team Trials Senior Women's No-Gi Runner-up (2009)
  • FILA World Team Trials Senior Women's Gi Winner (2008)

Amateur wrestling[link]

• Washington Interscholastic Activities Association
  • WIAA Girls High School State Championship (2005)
  • WIAA Girls All-State (2005)

Mixed martial arts record[link]

See also[link]

• List of female mixed martial artists

References[link]

External links[link]

• Professional MMA record for Miesha Tate from Sherdog