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WHEN/WHERE: Thursday, June 5, 2008 from 9 am to 2 pmGrand Street Education Campus, 850 Grand St., Brooklyn, NY 11211
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WHAT: Cabot Creamery is sponsoring a free, one-day soccer clinic withOlympic Gold Medalist and World Cup champion Julie Foudy and her husband IanSawyers, the coach and general manager of the brand new NY/NJ professionalwomen's soccer team, Sky Blue Soccer, for 100 New York City middle schoolsoccer and physical education teachers. The clinic includes hands-on,live-action tips on coaching soccer combined with messages of exercise,leadership and healthy nutrition to be utilized by coaches and physicaleducation teachers working with middle school students. In addition to theGold Medal Soccer Clinic, one lucky school will win a follow-up visit by JulieFoudy to work with the students on soccer drills, health and nutrition.
WHY: Cabot Creamery has long led the charge in educating students andparents about the benefits of healthy eating and exercise. Withthree-out-of-four teens affected by the calcium and obesity crisis, now is theperfect time for Cabot to sponsor a program like the Gold Medal Soccer CoachClinic that is aimed at teaching educators proven strategies for getting theirstudents involved in exercise and healthy eating. This one-day clinic isdesigned to highlight the combined importance of soccer skills and propernutrition to clinic participants in advance of the expansion of C.H.A.M.P.Ssoccer programs in NYC Middle Schools this fall.
WHO: Julie Foudy and her husband Ian Sawyers conduct hands-on trainingclinic with 100 NYC coaches and physical education teachers from NY CityMiddle Schools.
SPONSORS: Cabot, New York City Department of Education, 3-A-Day, New YorkCity Sports Commission, and DOE's C.H.A.M.P.S. Middle School Sport and FitnessProgram (Cooperative Healthy Active Motivated Positive Students).
PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES: Julie and Ian running live soccer drills andinteracting with coaches and phys. ed. teachers about the importance ofhealthy eating and exercise.
INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES: On-site interviews with Julie Foudy and IanSawyers, NYC middle school coaches, physical education teachers,representatives from the NYC Department of Education, the NYC SportsCommission, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, 3-A-Day and C.H.A.M.P.S.
ABOUT CABOT CREAMERY COOPERATIVE: Cabot Creamery Cooperative has been incontinuous operation in Vermont since 1919 and is best known as makers of "TheWorld's Best Cheddar," Cabot is owned by the dairy farm families of Agri-Mark,the Northeast's premier dairy cooperative. For additional information on CabotCreamery, visit http://www.cabotcheese.coopCONTACTS: Bob Schiers, Cabot Creamery, (609) 267-4861 or [email protected] Amanda Sells, NYC Sports Commission, (212) 487-5988 or [email protected] Maibe Gonzalez-Fuentes, NYC DOE, (212) 374-5582 or [email protected]
SOURCE Cabot Creamery Cooperative
