April
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April
24 , 2003 |
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| Fit Kids are the Focus It’s Fiesta time in San Antonio! While you may be delighting in the delicious, but less-than-healthy goodies Fiesta fans love, the Sports Foundation is working on a project that is designed to motivate our young citizens to embrace a fit, healthy lifestyle from an early age. The Fit Kids Challenge will begin this fall. Six area school districts will partner with the San Antonio Sports Foundation to encourage boys and girls, grades K thru 5, to make walking a regular, enjoyable part of their daily routine. The children will walk a marathon distance over a 16-week program and track their progress. More than 100,000 children in the San Antonio ISD, Northeast ISD, North Side ISD, Southwest ISD, South San ISD and Harlandale ISD will kick off the program with the Sports Foundation in October. Key sponsors have already “stepped up” to support the Fit Kids Challenge. It is not too late! There are many Fit Kids Challenge sponsorship opportunities for corporations who want to help make San Antonio a more healthful community. Proceeds will help underwrite the costs of a training log for each boy and girl, which will include nutritional hints, incentives for reaching mile markers on a periodic basis, partner locations for walking beyond schools and neighborhoods, and even ways to involve Mom and Dad. Also, each deserving child will receive a medal for completion of the “marathon” distance, and a tee shirt for participation in the citywide celebration at the Alamodome in the spring. You’ll hear more and
more about the Fit Kids Challenge in months to come. Please contact
me at 210-820-2110 or sblackwood@sanantoniosports.org
if you’d like to help us encourage healthy habits for the children
of our community. |
Governor Perry Meets with Sports Foundation Representatives
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SALOC Visits New Orleans
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Good Luck at Nationals! Fencing
& Gymnastics
For The Whole Family! Dreams For Youth/CODP provides training in six Olympic sports including fencing, gymnastics, badminton, swimming, diving and volleyball for more than 9,000 primarily disadvantaged San Antonio children each year. To learn more, contact Alma Striker at 210-820-2113 or astriker@sanantoniosports.org. |
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At
the invitation of Texas Governor Rick Perry, Sports Foundation chairman
Jim Callaway and executive director Susan Blackwood met with him in
his office at the State Capitol earlier this month. Accompanied by lobbyist
Chris Shields, Callaway and Blackwood visited with the Governor about
future plans for San Antonio to bid on high profile sporting events.
They also asked the Governor for his support to develop a Texas state
sports commission. The commission would oversee a statewide strategy
for enticing sporting events and organizations to Texas, as well as
support the Governor's fitness council initiatives. On behalf of the
Sports Foundation, Callaway and Blackwood also presented a token of
appreciation to the Governor for his efforts to bring the Pan American
Games to San Antonio.
March
Madness® wasn't over for LOC members this
year until April! Four days after San Antonio's very successful Regional
Championship, a delegation comprised of 25 individuals flew to New
Orleans to represent the 2004 NCAA® Final
Four® host committee. 
Two
divers from the Sports Foundation's Community Olympic Development Program
are set to make a splash at the West National Championships in Pasadena,
California this weekend, April 25 and 26. John Lynch, a senior at Holmes
High School, and Nathan Schreiber, a Holmes High School sophomore, both
train with the Alamo Area Aquatics diving team. John is competing in
the 1 meter and 3 meter events. He is scheduled to attend the University
of Wyoming next year on a four-year athletic scholarship for diving.
Nathan is also slated for the 3-meter competition.