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TAG UP for Youth and Sports in Florida.
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Purchase a professional sports license plate and be a supporter of sports in Florida. The Central Florida Sports Commission and each of Florida's nine professional sports teams encourage you to purchase the specialty sports tag of your choice. Show pride in your favorite Florida team while providing support to youth charities and Florida's communities. Proceeds from the additional $25 tag fee directly support each team's designated youth charity and the development of major and regional sports events throughout Florida. Each year the tag program generates over $250,000 for local youth charities and supports major and regional sports events throughout Florida's communities. For more information click HERE.
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A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM SAM |
Just like that another summer is in the books. The kids are all back in school and before you know it the Sports Commission will be back at our fall events. But before we start looking ahead to the cool temperatures and the returning autumn events, let us take a moment recap a great month of August.
The month of August started off with a splash with the 2010 Jack Travers' Southern Regional Championships Water Ski event held at Sunset Lakes in Groveland. The tournament was a regional championship for the top water skiers in the south and drew nearly 300 competitors to the county.
 The season wrapped up on a great note with the final event of the PAL Summer Games being staged. The PAL Karate Sports Challenge, sponsored by Lake County PAL, Central Florida Karate Academy in Umatilla and the Lake County Department of Tourism and Business Relations, was held August 6th and 7th at Lake Sumter Community College in Leesburg. Approximately 300 youth martial artists showcased their skills, as the event was a perfect showcase of the sportsmanship and hard work that the Police Activities League promotes. We will see all the great youth athletes next summer for the 3rd Annual PAL Summer Games!
Coming up in September, the Sports Commission, Oglethorpe University and the Mission Inn Resort & Club will stage the NCAA Division III Women's Golf Preview. The event will bring the elite Division III golf teams back to the resort to preview the very course they will be playing at for a championship come next May.
Finally, I'd once again like to invite any interested parties to attend our next Lake County Community Advisory Board meeting. The meeting will take place late in the last quarter of 2010 or early in the first quarter 2011. The CAB meetings provide an excellent forum for the sports and business leaders of Lake County to discuss the issues facing the sports tourism industry in the area, and an opportunity to brainstorm ways of pooling our resources to combat the issues head-on. Please contact Jon Baran at jbaran@centralfloridasports.org if you would like to attend our next meeting or want more information on the CAB.
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Best Regards,
Sam Stark
President/CEO
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| ECONOMIC IMPACT | |
Month of July 2010
Hotel Room Nights: 134
Tax Recovery: $1,925.79
Economic Impact: $140,139.00
Number of Participants: 675
Number of Spectators: 299
Number of Events: 2
Year to Date (through July 2010)
Hotel Room Nights: 4,243
Tax Recovery: $49,004.41
Economic Impact: $3,092,033.25
Number of Participants: 8,502
Number of Spectators: 14, 154
Number of Events: 17
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| WINS & LOSSES | |
(as of August 2010)
Formal Bids Submitted: 7
Total Bids Won: 5
Total Bids Lost: 1
This month the Sports Commission received great news from the NCAA. Coming hot off the heels of another successful NCAA golf championship this past May, the National Collegiate Athletic Association will bring the Division III Men to the Mission Inn Resort & Club for the 2012 National Championships. This will mark the fifteenth consecutive year that the Sports Commission and the Mission Inn Resort & Club have hosted an NCAA championship golf event. The men's tournament will bring approximately 200 collegiate golfers, along with their friends and family, to Howey-in-the-Hills to determine a team and individual national champion. With so many golfers, the field will actually be split and both the El Campeon and Las Colinas courses will be used simultaneously. If you can't wait until 2012 to get your collegiate golf fix, you are in luck. As stated previously in the impact report, the top collegiate female golfers will make a return trip to the Mission Inn for the Division III Women's Championship in May of 2011.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
Lake Sumter Community College Volleyball
Home matches begin August 20th and run through November
Lake Sumter Community College Field house
www.lscc.edu/athletics
2010 NCAA Division III Women's Championship Preview
September 23-25, 2010
Mission Inn Resort and Club
www.centralfloridasports.org
Lake Sumter/Seminole State College Exposure
September 25-26, 2010
National Training Center Softball Complex
www.ntcsoftball.com
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| COMMUNITY PROFILE | |
The Lake-Sumter Community College Sports and Recreation complex is located on the LSCC campus in Leesburg, FL. The Lake-Sumter Community College Sports and Recreation Complex is home to the Intercollegiate Athletic Program and enjoyed by local, state, and national visitors. The Sports and Recreation Complex contains both indoor and outdoor facilities that are multi-purpose in nature. The outdoor facilities include: regulation collegiate baseball and softball fields, covered batting cages and other practice facilities; four regulation tennis courts and four (4) three-wall racquetball courts; sand volleyball court and a ½ mile, paved walking path that overlooks Silver Lake. The indoor facilities house a regulation size basketball court and two volleyball courts, including locker rooms with showers that can be used for camps and tournament play. Athletic training facilities are also available. The indoor facilities have played host to the ESPN Kid's Casting (fishing event), the PAL summer games, High School and Middle School basketball and volleyball championships, Karate Championships, Special Olympics, and the Senior Olympic Games. Please visit http://www.lscc.edu/athletics or call: (352) 323-3645 for more information.
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keep you up to date with the progress of this potential tournament.
