What started as a way to keep up with her big brother, has turned Sam into a star player in her local, all-boys football league in Utah, becoming one of the fastest children in the Salt Lake City area ‘Gremlins’ league as well as breaking and making tackles among the much bigger players.Īfter outrunning the boys in various speed and agility drills, Sam was made quarterback for her team. The only problem is that nine-year-old Sam Gordon is too fast for them to catch, earning her the nickname Sweet Feet. There are plenty of boys chasing this little girl but they are not after a kiss on the school playground – they are trying to tackle her on the American Football pitch. He is also a children’s book author, having co-authored Sweet Feet: Samantha Gordon’s Winning Season (2013).'Sweet Feet': Nine-year-old girl Sam Gordon has become one of the fastest children in her local football league in Utah

He is the author of 'The TDR Siren Song: The Problems with Transferable Development Rights Programs and How to Fix Them,' 23 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 423 (2008) and 'Old Regionalism, New Regionalism, and Envision Utah: Making Regionalism Work,' 118 Harvard Law Review 2291 (2005), and a co-author of 'Sprawl & Local Government Taxation Regimes: Cause & Effect' in Urban Sprawl: A Comprehensive Reference (2005). He represented Kennecott Land Company in the land use planning and approval effort for over 90,000 acres on Salt Lake's West Bench, including the 4,000-acre Daybreak community that has received widespread acclaim.Īri, an AICP certified planner, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor for the Harvard Law Review. Prior to joining Envision Utah, he managed visioning and entitlement projects for the San Diego region Laie, Hawaii the 175,000-acre Superstition Vistas Arizona state trust land parcel and the 300,000-acre Deseret Ranches of Florida landholding near the Orlando International Airport. At Envision Utah, he helped lead the Your Utah, Your Future statewide vision that engaged 52,845 Utahns to tackle eleven different topics, as well as the recommended State Water Strategy, the Point of the Mountain vision, the Vision for Teacher Excellence, and numerous other critical efforts. Ari Bruening has extensive experience in visioning and implementation efforts for regions, large areas, and critical growth-related topics.

Sweet Feet by Samantha Gordon