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Kids In Sports is an Olympic
Games legacy without peer. No Olympic host city has done as much
with the resources it generated as Los Angeles –
the ’84 Games gave birth to the Amateur Athletic Foundation
and the AAF, in turn, created Kids In Sports. Ten years later, Kids
In Sports reaches 9,000 children a year in communities where, without
KIS, the opportunities for sports, and all that sports can engender,
would be severely limited.
Yet that is merely half of the Kids In Sports story, for at each
of its 14 sites, KIS programs are managed – and driven to
extraordinary success – by the families of KIS kids themselves.
KIS families and volunteers are coaches, managers, Advisory Board
members, teachers, officials, transportation coordinators and (of
course) cheerleaders for every KIS team.
To celebrate this amazing legacy, and to insure its enduring impact
on Los Angeles and its young people well into the future, Kids In
Sports recently celebrated its 10th Anniversary. The celebration
brought together UCLA’s legendary basketball coach John Wooden,
a host of Olympic athletes, donors, and talented athletes (super
soccer players, dazzling dancers, jubilant jump-ropers) and lots
of KIS kids and parents. Together, they celebrated a decade of KIS
success at its only mission, building communities one team at a
time.
Kids listen as Coach Wooden
talks about The Journey to Success.
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Olympians and other great
athletes who helped KIS celebrate 10 years of delivering quality
youth sports programs to Los Angeles County: Seating L to
R: John Naber, John Wooden, Kenny Washington, Keith Erickson.
Standing L to R: Nan Muehlhausen, Mike Warren, Cathy Marino
Bradford, Pat McCormick, Sammy Lee, Anita DeFrantz, Ann Meyers
Drysdale, Rafer Johnson, Keith Cruickshank, KIS Executive
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KIS extends its sincerest
gratitude to the sponsors of the Kids In Sports 10th Anniversary
Celebration:
Event Sponsor: Chuck Miller
Title Sponsor: Penny Foley
Team Spirit Sponsors: The Ahmanson Foundation,
Conway Collis, Anita DeFrantz, Tom Yamaguchi
Loyal Sponsors: Bill Asher, Robert Beyer, Mary
and Paul Genis, House of Blues, Jim Martin, Patrick McDivitt, Jonathan
Parrish, David Robbins, Rob and Melissa Weiler
In-kind Donations: California Pizza Kitchen, Fox
Entertainment Group, Jozu Catering and Tom Peters Catering
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