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Start with checking out our website, www.saloc.org, the best resource for everything you’ll need to know about the Final Four and all of the community events associated with the Big Dance®. You can order your Final Four Host City shirt online. It’s your chance to get the first 2004 NCAA licensed product at half the cost of some of the other merchandise that will be available during the tournament. Wear that shirt with pride on Friday, April 2 for Final Four Friday. Come to the free, open team practices from 12 to 4 at the Alamodome. Help welcome the teams and millions of TV viewers that will be seeing our community for the first time. Follow the bands and the cheerleaders down to the River Walk for the River Rally starting at 4:30 p.m. We’re the only host city that offers a floating pep rally! And that’s only the beginning. We
know that San Antonio is a truly unique city filled with Final Four
pride. Log on today and start making plans now to be a part of the action. |
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IOC President To Visit San Antonio
Tony Parker Congratulates Go!Kids San Antonio Spurs
point guard Tony Parker visited Jackson Keller Elementary
School this morning to congratulate them for being named Subway's
Diamond Shamrock Go!Kids Challenge School of the Year. Tony shared his lifelong love
of exercise and good nutrition with the children who lined up to ask
him questions about his career as an NBA star. And the Winner Is…
The mileage journal for the Diamond Shamrock Go!Kids Challenge(tm) and the logo for the San Antonio Local Organizing Committee's winning bid for the NCAA® 2008 Men's and 2010 Women's Final Four® championships each received a Merit Award. "We're proud to have contributed to the success of the Diamond Shamrock Go!Kids Challenge and to SALOC's bid to secure two more NCAA Final Four tournaments for San Antonio. These are fun and inspiring projects to work on and the resulting programs are good for children and our entire community," said Kevin La Rue, CEO and founding partner of Creative Link. "We're so grateful to the Creative Link team for their talent and dedication to our success," said Dr. Susan Blackwood, Sports Foundation executive director. "Their design captures the excitement and energy of our organization." Creative Link's colorful work for the 2004 NCAA Final Four will decorate San Antonio and the Alamodome in just a few short weeks. |
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Clinic Registration Begins Division I college basketball coaches and local college athletes will lead the free clinics that focus on basketball fundamentals, conditioning and life skills. Registration ends March 29. Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis. To register, download, print out the registration form complete it and return as instructed. Parents are encouraged to join a panel about youth sports, nutrition, sportsmanship and injury prevention. Click here to learn more about the YES Clinic program.
Order
your Final Four Host City shirt today and be the first of your friends
to sport official 2004 Final Four apparel. The polo ($25) and t-shirt
($15) are available in men’s, women’s and youth sizes. Just
click here to order yours today. |
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The ultimate success of the Diamond Shamrock Go!Kids Challenge™ may have been measured last month when thousands of San Antonio children completed the 19-week walking program. However, the road to that success was paved in late 2002 when school district representatives met with the Sports Foundation to discuss the program. Some of the names have changed, but there have been eight administrators who have been instrumental in formatting the Challenge and then implementing it within their respective school districts. It is these eight to whom the Sports Foundation gives its sincerest expression of gratitude and thanks:
DFY Coach Inspires by Example Chris Cox was 17 when he saw fencing for the first time. He was in PE class at Palo Alto College and the swashbuckling, Three Musketeers aspect of it appealed to him immediately. He started attending fencing classes at night. When the Dreams for Youth fencing program needed coaches, his instructor, former Community Olympic Development Program head coach Vinnie Bradford, suggested he become one.
“Fencing is a sport for anyone,” says Chris. “It’s fun, it’s competitive, and it has opened up many doors for me.” He especially appreciates being exposed to so many Olympians through the Sports Foundation and at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. “Seeing them (Olympians) shows you how much work it takes. It puts your life in perspective…I have no excuses.” Chris
graduated from the University of the Incarnate Word last May and works
at USAA, but continues to coach Dreams for Youth students on weekends.
As one of the few African Americans involved in the sport, Chris has
noticed a huge change in the diversity of the sport in Texas. “It’s
changing for the better.” Thanks to Chris, it is. |
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The
United States Olympic Committee’s (USOC) International Affairs
office confirms that International Olympic Committee (IOC) President
Jacques Rogge intends to visit San Antonio in April.
President Rogge is scheduled to attend the Pan American Sports Organization
(PASO) General Assembly, April 21-23. The annual session brings together
the Presidents and Secretaries General from each of the 42 National
Olympic Committees that make up the PASO membership. The PASO General
Assembly is being hosted by the USOC and the San Antonio Sports Foundation.
During
the Diamond Shamrock Go!Kids Challenge™, presenting sponsor
Subway restaurants encouraged children to vote for their favorite
Go!Kids classroom. Mrs. Patty Wampler's class of Jackson Keller Elementary
won the contest and received a visit from Tony Parker as their reward.
Tony also presented Mrs. Wampler with an autographed basketball and
awarded 10 lucky children Subway gift certificates.
Last
month, two designs created by Creative Link for the Sports Foundation
received ADDY® Awards from the American
Advertising Federation San Antonio Chapter. For many years, Creative
Link has been providing the graphic design behind the logos and "looks"
of Sports Foundation events and programs. 
Do
you know a boy or girl, ages 10-18, who would like to spend a morning
with top college basketball coaches and athletes? Then sign them up
now for the NCAA® Final Four®
YES (Youth Education through Sports) Clinics, Saturday April 3. The
YES Clinics take place at Lackland Air Force Base, Trinity University,
Sam Houston High School and University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)
from 8 a.m. to noon.
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Go!Kids Thank You
Chris
didn’t look far for his first pupils, enticing his younger sister
and brother, as well as a neighbor’s daughter (Kristen
Howell featured in the Nov. 25th edition of Sidelines) to come
under his tutelage. Now Chris has inspired his remaining siblings to
fence (another brother and sister), as well as countless others at the
Dreams for Youth fencing center downtown.