CHARLESTON — Exactly 147 days after walking off the turf at Laidley Field clutching a Class AAA state championship and a championship game Most Valuable Player trophy, Brad Mossor of Princeton Senior High School will return to Charleston to pick up more hardware.

Mossor will accept the Kennedy Award and Randy Moss Award, representing the state’s top football player and top receiver respectively, as selected by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association at the 79th Victory Awards, Sunday May 3 at Charleston Town Center.

“I’m looking forward to it,” Mossor said. “Charleston has been pretty good to me.

“I can’t wait to see all of the other winners receive their awards.”

Mossor has kept himself busy since football season. He discovered an elbow injury just two days after the season. He’s been recovering from surgery.

He’s also committed to continue his football career at West Virginia University.

“I had to go into surgery for the elbow,” Mossor explained. “At first it was cellulitis and then bursitis. There was a lot of swelling from my elbow to the top of my forearm, up to my shoulder.”

Mossor said he couldn’t pinpoint when an injury happened.

“It could have happened in the championship game,” he surmised. “I had a lot of adrenaline running through. I just didn’t feel anything until the next day.

“So I’ve been running and working out,” Mossor added. “A lot of weightlifting and a lot of on-field work. A lot of conditioning. Just trying to perfect my craft for the next level.”

Attending the Mountaineers football spring festivities, Mossor was able to catch up with last year’s Moss Award winner, Malachi Thompson of Nitro. Thompson was an early enrollee at WVU this spring and already on the Mountaineers team.

“I just got back from the spring game (last weekend),” Mossor acknowledged. “I saw Malachi. He’s one of my friends. It’s pretty cool, to see how everything comes back around.”

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At the Victory Awards, entry will be available at the Clendenin Street entrance. A pre-ceremony VIP Red Carpet Honorees reception will begin at 2 p.m.

VIP Red Carpet Reception tickets are $50 each, which also includes admission to the Awards Ceremony.

To purchase Victory Awards VIP Red Carpet reception tickets in advance of the event, send a check to:

WVSWA, 117 State Route 34, Box 6118, Hurricane, WV 25526

Honorees will have their photos taken on the red carpet with their families and individually. They’ll also be interviewed briefly on the red carpet. Appetizers will be provided to VIP Red Carpet Reception ticket holders.

Those joining Mossor as honorees at the 79th Victory Awards include winners in several categories, including high school football’s Sam Huff Award (top defensive player): Xavier Anderson of Spring Mills; Joe Stydahar Award (top lineman): Da’Ron Parks of Nitro; J.R. House Award (top quarterback): Maddox Twigg of Morgantown; Curt Warner Award (top running back): Brennan Wack of Wheeling Park; Chuck Howley Award (top linebacker): Marcos Kniska of University; Carl Lee Award (top defensive back): Jaleel Jones of Bluefield and Fulton Walker Award (top special teams): Jimmy Gregg of University.

Other sports awards include the McCoy Awards (female and male track & field): Maysen Fletcher of Herbert Hoover and Connor Lambert of Wahama; John Lowery Award

(high school baseball player of the year): Weston Smith of Hurricane; Softball Player of the Year: Mattie Carroll of Winfield; Volleyball Player of the Year: Ahaziah Smith of Herbert

Hoover; Gene Morehouse Award (media): Tony Caridi of Mountaineer Sports Network; Furfari Award (College Coach of the Year): Mark Kellogg of West Virginia University; Dutton Award (top high school wrestler): Stephen Myers of Parkersburg; Ostrowski Award (girls high school basketball player of the year): Jeriyah Pryor of George Washington; Evans Award (boys high school basketball co-players of the year) Eli Sancomb of Wheeling Central and Noah Lewis of George Washington; Doug Huff Award (senior athletes who demonstrate “leadership, hustle and determination”): Tayveon Wilson of Huntington; Girls High School Soccer Player of the Year: Lily Larnerd of East Fairmont; and Hardman Award (amateur athlete of the year): Zaden Ranson of Charleston Catholic; Van Meter Award (High school coach of the Year) Mel Stephens of Wheeling Central and Boys High School Soccer Player of the Year, Bodie Jordan of Nitro.

General Admission tickets for the 79th Victory Awards ceremony only, which begins at 3:15 p.m., are $25 each and will be available on site.