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Diamond Shamrock Go!Kids Challenge Readies for Launch!
“I applaud the Sports Foundation for taking a leadership role in helping the children of our community be healthy and active,” said Dr. Nat Sanderson, who is honorary chairman of the Diamond Shamrock Go!Kids Challenge™ as well as a cardiologist and member of the Sports Foundation board of directors. “It is important that children learn early that regular activity and good nutrition will reward them for life.” The Diamond Shamrock Go!Kids Challenge™ has been embraced wholeheartedly by the Harlandale, North East, Northside, San Antonio, Southside and Southwest Independent School Districts and will be distributed through the physical education teachers at 180 elementary schools. Children will log their mileage in a special Go!Kids journal and will receive incentives from sponsors for their achievements along the way. Over the next few months, Sidelines will recognize the participants,schools and sponsors who are making the Diamond Shamrock Go!Kids Challenge™ a positive force for fitness in San Antonio. Go!Kids sponsors include: Diamond Shamrock, Valero Energy Corporation, Mission Pharmacal, Whataburger, Inc., Coca-Cola, Subway, Creative Link, Kraft, SBC, Methodist Healthcare System, Humana, Community First Health Plans, Inc., Frost Bank, Security Service Federal Credit Union, DPT, and the Franklin Family Foundation. SASF
Patronship Pays Off! “People like the Goldman’s help the Sports Foundation provide programs for thousands of young people every year in San Antonio and bid on and host major economic generators like the NCAA® Final Four®,” said Sports Foundation fundraising chairman Gary Arthur, VP of Marketing at Valero Energy Corporation. “Individual contributions make a big difference to the Sports Foundation.” Become a new or renewing patron today! Click here or call Mary Ullmann Japhet at 210-820-2123. USA Pentathlete Ranked #1 in World! USA Pentathlon has much to be proud of after the performances of its athletes in the last few weeks. The United States can boast that it has the number one ranked men’s pentathlete in the world! Vaho Iagorashvili, who is ranked number one after the recent World Championship, trains in San Antonio, headquarters for USA Pentathlon. So does his wife, Mary Beth Iagorashvili, who is currently the tenth ranked woman pentathlete in the world. “The USA has never been ranked this high and so deep, especially on the men's side,” said USA Pentathlon executive director Robert Marbut. “We also have a husband and wife who each have a legitimate chance of medalling in Athens.” Marbut,
whose organization recently faced many challenges, including a threat
of elimination from the Olympic Games, credits talented athletes,
a strong board of directors -- including Sports Foundation board members
Ralph Bender and Steve Richards
-- and a restructured coaching staff with USA Pentathlon’s dramatic
turnaround. Top 3 USA Women Pentathletes
in World Rankings |
It’s time to tee it up for the 2003 SBC San Antonio Sports Foundation Golf Classic. If your company has not already signed up, don’t miss the opportunity for an exciting round of golf at the majestic Dominion Country Club on November 10th. Proceeds benefit the Sports Foundation and its Dreams for Youth program which provides training in six Olympic sports for thousands of disadvantaged children each year. The championship prize is a foursome in the 2004 SBC Seniors Championship Pro Am! Lots of other impressive prizes will be awarded, and every golfer receives a terrific goodie bag. There are several corporate sponsorship levels as well as individual slots. Click here for a sign up form and hit a hole-in-one with the SBC San Antonio Sports Foundation Golf Classic. For more information contact Elena Stout at 210-820-2127 or estout@sanantoniosports.org. Olympian Rides for Life Take a ride to Saturn of
Selma in Northeast San Antonio at 2:30p.m. on Tuesday, September 23
for the Saturn Lone Star Circle of Life Bike Tour. Organizers will be
raising awareness in the community for the need for blood, marrow, stem
cell, tissue, and organ donors. Olympic snowboarder and extreme athlete
Chris Klug will lead the ride into the Saturn dealership.
Klug is alive and snowboarding today thanks to receiving a donor liver
three years ago. All of the Lone Star Circle of Life Tour cyclists have
benefited from an organ, tissue, marrow or blood donation, whether personally
or for a family member or friend. |
| DFY Summer Games
Fall Into a New Sport with Dreams for Youth As a new school year begins,
fall registration is underway for four sports in the Dreams for Youth
program.
CODP Fencer Takes Silver at Pan Am Games Congratulations to Community Olympic Development Program (CODP) fencer Kelley Hurley who was a silver medallist at the 2003 Pan American Games. Hurley won her medal in the women’s team epee final. The Pan American Games were held in August in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Hurley is a sophomore at Warren High School and trains with USA Pentathlon as part of the San Antonio CODP hosted by the San Antonio Sports Foundation. She is currently ranked third in the nation in women’s epee. Solomon Smith Barney & Women’s Bar Assoc.
Last June,
the Women’s Bar Association was awarded a Star of Achievement
Award by the State Bar of Texas for its role in this innovative program
which presents a mentoring curriculum to girls ages 12-14 in the Harlandale
ISD, bolstering healthy decision making, communication and refusal skills.
G.A.L.S. is rewarding to both the young women and their volunteer facilitators,
and there is hope of expanding it in the near future. |
| Final Four® Preparations Underway On hand to share their expertise and leadership will be Bob Bowlsby, chairman of Division I Men’s Basketball, Tom Jernstedt, senior vice president of Division I Men’s Basketball, key NCAA® staff and a representative from the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Volunteer Today Calling all volunteers!!!
Spots are filling up quickly to volunteer for the 2004 NCAA®Final
Four®, so don’t miss this unique opportunity! Call 210-820-2191
for more information or click
here for an application. |
In his own words… "Creative
Link is both honored and humbled to be a part of an organization with
such broad reach in support of youth initiatives, community development
programs and economic impact. It's most inspiring to be surrounded by
a group of people so passionate about what they do." To become an individual or corporate patron or an event sponsor of the Sports Foundation Click here or .contact Mary Japhet at 210-820-2123 or mjaphet@sanantoniosports.org. New and Renewing Individual Patrons Amber Alonso; Lawrence Anderson;
Lisa Blonkvist; Russ Bookbinder; Norman Dugas; William Grabski; Keith
Harward; Harry Hawks; Janet Holliday; Martha McCollough; William McKamie;
Erich Menger; Carl Nentwich; Jeff Nowicki; Philip Pfeiffer; Bob Raymond;
Dr. Victor Rodriguez; Rick Smith; James Stewart ; Esther Vexler; Judi
Weers; Brad Young; Sasha Zucker Corporate Patrons
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On
October 1, more than 100,000 children in the San Antonio area will
take their first steps in the Diamond Shamrock Go!Kids Challenge™
fueled by Valero. For 19 weeks, children
in six participating school districts will be motivated to walk one-quarter
mile a day for a total of 26.2 miles. The Diamond Shamrock Go!Kids Challenge is the
Sports Foundation’s gift to the community – free of charge
to the participants and their schools and designed to combat the growing
concerns of childhood obesity and inactivity. 
The
first annual Dreams for Youth Summer Games were held on a warm weekend
in August at four locations around San Antonio. With their parents watching,
close to 250 enthusiastic children competed in badminton, gymnastics,
fencing and diving. Each child received a t-shirt, certificate, and
a ticket to Splashtown. Alma Striker, director of the
Dreams for Youth program, was pleased with attendance, and hopes to
attract even more participants next year by to moving the games to May.
“Having the games at the beginning of the summer will serve as
a summer kick-off for the sports, and an end-of-the school-year finale
too,” says Striker.
Thanks
to the generosity of Solomon Smith Barney (SSB) and the Bexar County
Women’s Bar Association, Dreams for Youth athletes are learning
lessons well beyond sport. Last month, SSB presented a check for $10,000
to the Sports Foundation for support of the Girls and Life Sports (G.A.L.S.)
mentoring program, which is implemented by volunteers with the Bexar
County Women’s Bar Association.
The
San Antonio Local Organizing Committee (SALOC) continues to pave the
Road to San Antonio® in preparation for the Final Four®! The
2004 NCAA® Final Four® host manual seminar will take place September
16-18. Some of college basketball’s leadership will be in attendance
to guide SALOC through the early planning stages of the tournament.
Guests of the NCAA® and SALOC members will enjoy a staff outing
on Tuesday, September 16th to get acquainted. On Thursday, September
18th the host manual seminar will be held in the Alamodome Sports Club.
Kevin
LaRue and
his talented team at Creative Link have been donating
their graphic design skills to the San Antonio Sports Foundation for
years. The lively new Diamond Shamrock Go!Kids Challenge™ logo
and mileage journal are their handiwork. Every time an NCAA championship
tournament comes to San Antonio, Creative Link is behind the colorful
look that says “¡Bienvenidos a San Antonio!” Thanks,
Creative Link, for always making the Sports Foundation look great!