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International Basketball
in San Antonio
Is your fantasy playing in the NBA? Helping
to discover the next Manu? Just enjoying a great international
basketball game after the Spurs win their next championship?
We can help you with it all!
This summer, the San Antonio Sports Foundation will
have the privilege to partner with USA Basketball to
host a major FIBA international event at St. Mary’s
University (Bill Greehey Arena) June 28– July
2. The 2006 FIBA Americas U18 Championship for
Men, which we're tagging the Tournament of
the Americas, will feature eight teams from North America,
Central America, the Caribbean and South America. This
is an event at which Manu Ginobili was discovered. Other
NBA players who have participated in previous tournaments
include Carmelo Anthony, Stephon Marbury, Grant Hill
and Allan Houston.
You guessed it…we have work ahead. Satisfy that
fantasy and help San Antonio be a major player in putting
on this international event. How?
- Sign up for one of our working committees: ticket
sales and marketing, food services, transportation,
translation services, game operations, sellers and
ushers, and much more.
- Agree to be one of our team hosts and enjoy spending
six special days with a team of future stars.
- Secure a donation from a restaurant that will host
a team (20 members) for one lunch or dinner.
- Find a group of friends that will attend a session
(only a $5 ticket).
- Help give these players the opportunity to play
in front of an appreciative audience.
- Bring a young basketball player so he or she can
meet the future stars.
The fun won’t stop until the teams depart on
July 3rd. Thanks to the volunteers, each one of our
international guests will have a great amount of respect
for San Antonio and the community that embraces this
kind of event.
Just
click here and we will have the staff member
or the specific committee chairman in your area of interest
contact you now!
If you need additional information, please call our
volunteer coordinator at 210-820-2191 or contact me
at 210-820-2110 or sblackwood@sanantoniosports.org.
Dr.
Susan Blackwood
Executive Director
Be A Part of the Action—Calling
All Volunteers
If you want to help put on some great
athletic events or be a part of hosting a local, regional
or international competition, then be a volunteer for
one or all of the Sports Foundation’s upcoming
events. Roundball Ruckus takes place
at the Alamodome April 29-30. We will need volunteers
for anything from packet pickup on April 25 to clean
up on the 30th. Volunteers receive a t-shirt and free
parking.
San Antonio will host USA Gymnastics’
region three trampoline and tumbling competition
at Freeman Coliseum, June 2-4. Volunteers are needed
for set-up, spotting , computer entry, gate and transportation.
June 26-July 2, volunteers are needed for the FIBA
Americas U18 Championship for Men. As mentioned
in Susan’s message, needs range from hospitality
to transportation.
To sign up or for more information, contact Nancy Christensen
at 210-820-2191 or nchristensen@sanantoniosports.org.
NCAA San Antonio Regional
Set
 Sixteen
teams remain in the 2006 NCAA Women’s Basketball
Championship, with four set to travel to the San Antonio
Regional this week. Oklahoma, LSU,
Stanford and DePaul
have advanced through their respective first and second
rounds. They will go head-to-head at the AT&T Center
beginning with the semifinals on Saturday, March 25
at 11:00 am (LSU vs. DePaul) and 1:30 pm (Stanford vs.
Oklahoma).
The final of the regional will be played
Monday, March 27 at either 6:00 or 8:00 p.m., with the
winner advancing to Boston. All-session tickets are
still available for $42 for adults and $25 for high
school and college students with identification, and
for children 12 years of age and younger.
Get your tickets today by visiting the
AT&T Center Box Office at One AT&T (formerly
SBC) Center Parkway or click
here to order online. Don’t miss
the best of NCAA women’s basketball!
2006 Roundball Ruckus Lets Basketball Players Hoop It
Up During Fiesta
Teams of all ages from ballers to couch
potatoes are invited to take the court in the 2006 Roundball
Ruckus 3-on-3 tournament, April 29-30. All participants
– boys, girls, men and women – receive a
t-shirt and a chance to rule the winners’ stand
in eight different divisions.
Organized by the San Antonio Sports Foundation and
now an official event of Fiesta, Roundball Ruckus will
feature a daily 3 point contest, slam dunk contest,
free-throw contest, and Hot Shot Shootout. Entry fee
proceeds for each three to five member team will benefit
the non-profit San Antonio Sports Foundation’s
youth programs.
Enter your three-to-five person team by April 17 and
pay an entry fee of only $100. The registration fee
increases to $125 until the final entry deadline of
April 24.
Visit our website,
read about the official rules, and register your team
today.
Tournament of the Americas Tickets
on Sale
 See
the next generation of international basketball superstars
in person at this summer’s FIBA Americas
U18 Championship for Men – the Tournament
of the Americas -- featuring the national teams from
the United States, Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada,
Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Uruguay. The tournament
takes place from June 28-July 2 at Bill Greehey Arena
on the campus of St. Mary's University. They’ll
compete for a chance to represent the Americas in the
2007 FIBA U19 World Championship in Malaysia.
Tickets are on sale now for this fun, affordable, international
event. All-session, single day general admission passes
are just $5 each, and all-session, single day reserved
section passes are available for $10. Order
now online. You may also complete and return
a ticket
order form or call 210-820-2100.
Freedom Elementary Students
Learn ABC’s of Finance
 Thirty
children in the Sports Foundation’s after school
program at Southside ISD recently learned about the
ABC’s of finance. As part of Smith Barney’s
STTAR (Success through Tutoring, Athletics, and Role-Modeling)
program, Sports Foundation board member and Smith Barney
Senior Vice President Lisa Blonkvist
spent an afternoon teaching children about saving and
investing.
With rapt attention, the children learned through participating
in games and activities about money, needs and wants,
saving, as well as about making good choices in saving
and investing. Prizes and take-home goodies were part
of the fun, and the children loved it. They left with
an appreciation of how money works and many shared it
with their parents.
Charles Mullaney, Dedicated
Coach
Charles Mullaney has
been coaching soccer at summer camps since he was 16.
But a chance encounter with Dreams for Youth badminton
coach Kampol Surapiboonchai launched some new pursuits
for the 27 year-old UTSA graduate.
 Charles
graduated from UTSA in December with a degree in kinesiology
and his teaching certification. Kampol
saw him student teaching at Gates Academy in SAISD and
was impressed. He asked if Charles wanted a job coaching.
Now Charles, who has a wide range of coaching skills,
instructs team handball, badminton, gymnastics and volleyball
for the Sports Foundation at schools in the After School
All Stars program and at Miller’s Pond and Meadow
Cliff Parks and Recreation Centers. He went from coaching
two days a week to six. He enjoys interacting with the
kids and sharing in their successes as they master a
new sport.
Charles hopes to land a full-time teaching position,
but has no plans to give up coaching. With his versatility
and positive attitude, it can only be a plus for the
children and the Sports Foundation.
New
and Renewing Individual Members
Anna Hilton
Barbara Benson Mansell
Rick Pych
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;
Ross Davis; James Doyle; Jim Dublin; Charlie Ebrom;
Steve Edlund; Donald Engelhardt; Dr. Frank Fichtel;
Pat & Kelley Frost; Dr. Jamie Garza; Claude Gilmer;
William Greehey; Joe Guinn; Bill & Marcia Hanson;
Cheryl Haywood; Peter Holt; Michael Imbimbo; Scott Hefner;
Scott Helbing; George C. Hixon; Steve Isom; Stacey Johnson;
Michael Jourdan; Greg & Leigh Ann King; James Mickey;
Phil Miner; Bob & Laura Raymond; Tom Reardon; Marty
Roos; Dr. Robert Schnitzler; Dr. David Schmidt; Dr.
Earl Smith; Steve Souter; Neill Walsdorf, Jr.; Carri
Wells; Jeff Wentworth; Paul Young
Corporate
Champions
City of San Antonio; AT&T
$50,000
Creative Link; IKON Office Solutions;
San Antonio Express-News; Valero Energy Corporation
$20,000
Langley & Banack; Pepsi Bottling
Group; San Antonio Coca-Cola Bottling Co; Whataburger,
Inc.
$10,000
Budget Car & Truck Rental; Cingular
Wireless; Maverick Video Production; NuMedia: Oak
Farms Dairy; Paladin IT Services; 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; Ernst & Young; Frost
Bank; H-E-B Grocery Company; The Gambrinus Company;
Hertz Corporation; KPMG; Marriott Plaza San Antonio;
Merrill Lynch; Methodist Healthcare System; Miner
Corporation; The Plaza Club; Security Service Federal
Credit Union; Sterling Bank; SWBC; US Global Investors;
Walton Signage; Wells Fargo Bank; Zachry Hospitality,
Inc.
$2,500
Allegra Print & Imaging; Bank of
America; Broadway National Bank; Catering by Don Strange;
Colonial Supplemental Insurance; Cox Smith Matthews
Incorporated; Ear Medical Group; FIRSTMARK Credit
Union; First Rate Investment Systems;
GLI Distributing; Halo Distributing; Marriott Plaza
San Antonio; Marriott Rivercenter/Riverwalk; Mission
Pharmacal; Pape-Dawson Consulting Engineers, Inc.;
San Antonio Economic Development Foundation; Sterling
Foods; Tesoro Petroleum Companies; 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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