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Press Release: Soccer Jam 2008
Jun 19, 2008 - posted by Moresports for Special Events

Attention Sports/News/Social Issues/Assignment/Photo Editors Media Advisory/Photo Opportunity – MoreSports 2008 World Mini Soccer Jamboree for East Vancouver and Burnaby kids

Presented in through Co-chair with the Vancouver Whitecaps

VANCOUVER, June 21 - Media representatives are invited to attend MoreSports 2008 World Mini Soccer Jam, which includes a community festival, in Vancouver. MoreSports programs reduce barriers for kids who don’t usually play sports because of cost, gender, cultural issues, transportation, or fear of the competitiveness in some organized sports. More than 1500 kids, on 150 teams, from mini soccer programs across East Vancouver as well as six teams from its newly implemented pilot project in Burnaby will attend. Parents, volunteers, partners and sponsors will bring the total attendance to between 3000 and 3500 people. Photographers are guaranteed lots of action to shoot and interview opportunities with MoreSports families are available.

In addition, the Vancouver Foundation will be making a funding announcement in support of MoreSports at 12:30 during the photo op session.

DATE: Saturday, June 21st, 2008

TIMES:

  • Event: 9:30am to 5pm
  • Photo-Op: 12:30pm with Whitecaps, Vancouver Clr. Suzanne Anton and Vancouver Parks Board Chair Korina Houghton

PLACE: Empire Bowl Fields Corner of Cassiar and Hastings in East Vancouver

For further information:

MoreSports Coordinator Dick Woldring 604-803-8815
dick_woldring@telus.net
www.moresports.org

For the Vancouver Foundation contact:

Mark Gifford 604-657-3908
mark@vancouverfoundation.bc.ca

Backgrounder

MoreSports: "Giving All Kids a Chance to Play"

  • MoreSports programs involve children from kindergarten to Grade Seven.
  • MoreSports began as a collaborative initiative of three Vancouver inner city neighbourhoods in 1999. It provides sustainable sport and physical activity opportunities for children, particularly those who typically do not participate in sports.
  • Today, more than 3,600 kids regularly participate in sports and physical activity programs, such as soccer and basketball, and the program has grown to seven hubs encompassing 16 Vancouver neighbourhoods, primarily on the East Side.
  • In January, MoreSports began a pilot project in Burnaby to take the delivery model to other areas with high need. Burnaby has six MoreSports teams, with about 100 kids, from Stride and Kitchener Elementary schools.
  • MoreSports Co-presents the Jam with the Vancouver Whitecaps and BC Soccer. They with multiple sponsors, partners, parents, and volunteers sustain the programs. These cooperative efforts make MoreSports annual soccer jam a true community festival and celebration of soccer in Vancouver.
    • KidSports
    • Sport BC
    • HUB International
    • 2010 Legacies Now
    • Vancouver Fire Department
    • Vancouver Parks Board
    • Vancouver Police Department
    • Vancouver School Board
    • Vancouver Community Centres
    • Neighbourhood Houses
    • BC Lacrosse
    • BC Gymnastics
    • Lions Club
  • The kids will play soccer and enjoy a carnival that includes food and drinks, games, prizes, soccer skills challenges, a bouncy castle, Vancouver Police Training Jr. Obstacle Course and face painting. They can get autographs and photographs with Vancouver Whitecaps players, photos on a Vancouver Fire Department truck, and with a Vancouver Police dog.


  
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