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Sports Improve Girls' Lives
Research shows girls who participate in
sports are academically more successful, more likely
to graduate from high school, more likely to matriculate
in college, and experience greater career success. Participation
in sports and other physical activities can help reduce
a girl’s health risk for obesity, diabetes, heart
disease, osteoporosis, breast cancer, depression and
unintended teen pregnancy.
Knowing these facts, please support our upcoming women’s
championships in San Antonio beginning with the Big
12 Women’s Soccer Championship on Nov 2, 4 and
6 as well as the Division I Women’s NCAA Volleyball
Championship on December 15 and 17. More importantly,
join me in bringing a young girl or sponsoring a girl’s
team to one of these events. They will meet their role
models!
See details in this newsletter on how the Sports Foundation
will do the work for you. We know how important this
effort can be in making a difference in the lives of
girls in San Antonio. Thanks.
Dr.
Susan Blackwood
Executive Director
Valero Volunteers Paint
DFY Center
 Volunteers
from Valero Energy Corporation took
advantage of a beautiful day last Saturday to paint
the exterior of the Dreams for Youth Training Center,
525 San Pedro Ave. The Sports Foundation is grateful
for the time and effort put in by the volunteers, many
of whom brought their children.
They included: Damon Luckey, Cassandra
Gonzalez, Caroline Mowen,
Corey Mowen, Chris Abbott,
Mellisa White, Jesse Twillie,
Robert Whie and Sarah G. Mendez.
Painting the exterior was the final step needed before
a sign can be installed outside identifying the center.
Nominate the Sports Foundation
Volunteer of the Year
Volunteers are the heart of the Sports
Foundation and are definitely its most valuable resource!
These individuals show a strong desire to give simply
for the sake of giving. Without them, we don’t
know where we’d be! The Leo & Chickie
Rose “Volunteer of the Year” award
has been created to annually recognize the San Antonio
Sports Foundation’s most outstanding volunteer.
This award will be given to a volunteer who has made
significant contributions to the Sports Foundation’s
volunteer program through length of service, loyalty
and commitment to the organization, and service to his/her
fellow volunteers.
Click
here to download the form to nominate your
pick for the 2005 Sports Foundation’s “Volunteer
of the Year”. Nominations must be submitted by
November 14, 2005. The award will be announced at the
December board of directors’ meeting.
Stan Kelly Tees Up for
SASF Golf Classic
 The
Sports Foundation is thrilled to announce that Stan
Kelly will be the celebrity host and emcee
for the Sports Foundation’s Golf Classic, Dec.
12 at the Dominion Country Club. Morning news co-anchor
of “San Antonio’s First News” on News
Radio 1200 and the PA announcer for the San Antonio
Spurs, the Missions and the UT Longhorn basketball team,
Stan is an avid golfer and long-time supporter of the
Sports Foundation.
Tee off with Stan and reserve your team’s spot
today! Just
click here for all the details of sponsorship
and benefits. The proceeds from this “holiday
edition” of the Sports Foundation Golf Classic
support the organization’s Dreams for Youth program
and Valero Go!Kids Challenge.
San Antonio Welcomes Big
12 Soccer Next Week
 Texas
A&M will be back in San Antonio to defend their
2004 title in this year’s Big 12 Women's
Soccer Championship Nov. 2, 4, and 6 at Blossom
Soccer Stadium. Of course each of the college conference’s
top eight teams that qualify for the tournament are
gunning for the title, too, and an automatic bid to
the NCAA Championship. To find out which teams will
travel to San Antonio next week, visit the Big
12 Championship Web site.
For the ninth consecutive year, the San Antonio Sports
Foundation and the University of Texas will co-host
the championship. Tickets are only $5.00 a day and $10.00
for three-day tournament passes. Coaches and parents:
coveted Team Pack orders (containing twenty tickets)
cost $89.00.
Click here to
purchase tickets online or call the Sports
Foundation at 820-2100. They are also available through
Ticketmaster, and at area soccer stores including Bicycle
Heaven (20323 Huebner Road at Stone Oak), Soccer Guru-Sports
Center (6904 Bandera Road), Soccer Locker (6487 Blanco
Road), and Soccer World (3949 Fredericksburg Road).
Get your tickets today!
Early Bird Ticket Discount for 2006 Hall
of Fame Tribute
 The
San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame class for 2006 has been
announced – Sean Elliot, Bob
Bass, Cito Gaston, Mary
Nan West and Pinkey Whitney
– and now is the time to get in on the excitement
by ordering your tickets to this stellar event. Individual
tickets purchased before December 31 cost $100, with
the price increasing to $125 on January 1, 2006.
Tables of ten are also available for $1500, $2500, and
$5000. All proceeds from this event will benefit the
Sports Foundation’s Dreams for Youth program.
To purchase tickets online, click
here or call Gretchen Garceau-Kragh at
210-820-2109.
 2005
NCAA Volleyball Update
Get
your tickets today for the NCAA Division
I Women’s Volleyball Championship, slated for
Dec. 15 and 17 in the Alamodome. Don’t miss seeing
the best athletes in college volleyball.
Adopt a Team Today!
 Looking
for a year-end tax write off? The San Antonio Sports
Foundation has the perfect solution -- send a young
woman or her team to the 2005 NCAA Division I Women’s
Volleyball Championship! Each girl will receive an all-session
pass, a commemorative t-shirt and the opportunity to
get autographs from collegiate players in the tournament.
We have deserving girls waiting in line for this opportunity
or you can designate the middle school or community
team that you wish to sponsor. Individual players can
be adopted for $50 each or teams for $500.
Click
here to order online or call (210) 820-2104
for additional information.
Volunteers Still Needed
Volunteer positions for the Championship are filling
up fast. The San Antonio Sports Foundation will need
an estimated 175 volunteers who will be assigned to
various duties including, airport and hotel welcome,
hospitality, game-day giveaways, autograph sessions
and transportation. To become an official volunteer,
don’t wait!. Sign
up HERE today.
Valero Go!Kids Challenge™
& Saints
 The
2005 Valero Go!Kids Challenge is in its sixth week and
tens of thousands of elementary school students in San
Antonio, Boerne and New Braunfels are walking every
day toward their goal of completing a marathon by December
4. Valero Go!Kids Challenge participants at Locke-Hill
Elementary got a motivating boost by a visit
from New Orleans Saints Ben Archibald
on Tuesday.
Teachers there nominated their school for the visit
via www.GoKidsChallenge.com,
the official Web site for the Sports Foundation’s
innovative fitness program. Ben encouraged the kids
to exercise daily, eat well and avoid dangerous substances
– an especially relevant message during this national
anti-drug Red Ribbon Week.
DFY Diving Gets New Coach
 Dreams
for Youth diving has a new location and a new coach.
This fall, the program was moved from the Natatorium
to Northside ISD Aquatics. Thirty participants—mostly
beginners—take lessons twice a week, learning
the basics of diving. New DFY diving coach, Emma
Kanko, dove for four years with Taft High School
where she was trained by Community Olympic Development
Program coach Tommy Law.
The Northwest Vista college freshman
has always had an interest in diving. “I love
the water and watching divers. Plus it’s cool
to do a sport where you fly,” Emma explains. She
wanted to find a way to continue her hobby after graduating
from high school, and started volunteering as a coach
last spring. Tommy Law and Stan
Randall, director of diving for the AAU, were
looking for someone to take over the Dreams for Youth
program and she fit the bill. Now Emma is working with
beginners and helping them enjoy the sport she loves.
For more information on Dreams for Youth
diving, contact Alma Striker at 210-820-2113 or astriker@sanantoniosports.org.
Occasionally, we profile one of our
Sports Foundation staff members in Sidelines to better
acquaint you with the people behind the scenes who are
working daily to fulfill the mission of the Sports Foundation.
 Anna
Gomez-Vazquez is the program manager for the
2005 Valero Go!Kids Challenge™. A graduate of
UTSA with a degree in public health, this Laredo native
joined the Sports Foundation staff in March 2005.
• How
are you using your degree in public health in your current
position?
A key part of community health is
developing and implementing healthy programs in the
community. As program manager for the San Antonio Sports
Foundation, I have applied my past studies in effective
program management.
•
What are your goals for the Valero Go!Kids Challenge™?
There are two main goals I plan
to accomplish. First, to get every single San Antonio
elementary student involved with the Valero Go!Kids
Challenge. Second, to eventually have every child log
on and submit their miles through the website.
• So after 7 months,
what’s your impression of the Sports Foundation?
The Sports Foundation is an amazing
organization that unites children and families through
sports and physical activity. What I like the most is
how the staff works so well together, everyone is always
ready and willing to help each other in whichever way
they can.
• What is something
you think very few people know about you?
Every summer, since I was in high
school, I have put together a summer camp for girls
ages 8-13 with the help of my sisters. Our camp teaches
girls crafts, cooking, dancing and a lot of other fun
activities.
Champions
Club
Individual
Members at $1,000+
Gary & Shelia Arthur; Morton Baird;
Sam Barshop; Ed Benninger; James Blackwood; Susan Blackwood;
June Bratcher; Tim Brierty; Howard Burris; Jim Callaway;
Cassandra Carr; James Doyle; Jim Dublin; Charlie Ebrom;
Dr. Frank Fichtel; Larry Franklin; Pat & Kelley
Frost; Dr. Jamie Garza; Claude Gilmer; William Greehey;
Joe Guinn; Bill & Marcia Hanson; Cheryl Haywood;
Scott Hefner; Scott Helbing; George C. Hixon; Peter
Holt; Steve Isom; Stacey Johnson; Michael Jourdan; Greg
& Leigh Ann King; Michael Lynd; Lowry Mays; Red
McCombs; James Mickey; Phil Miner; Tom Reardon; Marty
Roos; Dr. David Schmidt; Dr. Earl Smith; Steve Souter;
Michael G. Stoltz; Neill Walsdorf, Jr.; Carri Wells;
Jeff Wentworth; Paul Young
Corporate
Champions
City of San Antonio; SBC Communications
Inc.
$50,000
Creative Link; IKON Office Solutions;
San Antonio Express-News; Valero Energy Corporation
$20,000
Pepsi Bottling Group; San Antonio Coca-Cola
Bottling Co; San Antonio Spurs; Whataburger, Inc.
$10,000
Budget Car & Truck Rental; Cingular
Wireless; Langley & Banack; Maverick Video Production;
NuMedia: Oak Farms Dairy; Paladin IT Services; Methodist
Children's Hospital; Spectrum Health Clubs; Sports
Medicine Associates of San Antonio, The Dominion Country
Club
$5,000
George Becknell; Bender & Associates;
BudCo., Inc.; The CE Group - Communication & Events;
ChapmanSchewe Benefits Consulting; Comet Neon Advertising;
The Darmstetter Company; Frost Bank; H-E-B Grocery
Company; Hertz Corporation; JP Morgan Chase; KPMG;
Merrill Lynch; Methodist Healthcare System; Michael
Imbimbo, Inc.; Miner Corporation; The Plaza Club;
Security Service Federal Credit Union; Soccer Sports
Complex; Sterling Bank; Sterling Foods, Inc.; SWBC;
Jon Turner; Wells Fargo Bank; Zachry Hospitality,
Inc.
$2,500
Allegra Print & Imaging; Bank of
America; Broadway Bank; Carneiro, Chummney & Co.;
C.C. Creations; Catering by Don Strange; Colonial
Supplemental Insurance; Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated;
Ear Medical Group; Ernst & Young; FIRSTMARK Credit
Union; First Rate Investment Systems;
Flowers Bakeries; GLI Distributing; Halo Distributing;
Initial Security; Dr. Susan Marenda-King; Marriott
Rivercenter/Riverwalk; Mission Pharmacal; Pape-Dawson
Consulting Engineers, Inc.; SpawGlass Contractors,
Inc.; Tesoro Petroleum Companies; Walton Signage;
Yantis Company
Grants/Foundations
The Alfred S. Gage Foundation, Bexar
County Health & Human Services CDBG; Bexar County
Women's Bar Foundation; Brown Foundation; Charity
Ball Foundation; Coleman Foundation; Criminal Justice
Division JJDP Grant; Criminal Justice Division Safe
and Drug Free Schools Grant; GAC Halff Foundation;
Light Foundation; Myra Stafford Pryor Charitable Trust;
The Sequor Foundation; David & Betty Sachs Foundation;
Smith Barney; Women’s Sports Foundation
Founding
Sponsors
City of San Antonio; H-E-B; USAA Foundation,
A Charitable Trust; Valero Energy Corporation
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