<p>and grades are grades are grades are more important than your varsity soccer captain if yours are worse than your friends. and if they're better, good for you! </p>
<p>i'd go with your friend's speech accolades though, because he's won them twice, plus it's statewide. that's a much bigger pool of possible winners than a captain from a pool of 20 or something, no matter how you look at it.</p>