To celebrate our 40th anniversary, we’re looking back at 40 memorable moments in San Antonio Sports history and kicking it off by taking it back to the beginning. In the summer of 1993, Mayor Nelson Wolff and Bexar County Judge Cyndi Taylor lit the Olympic Festival torch in Colorado Springs. When it reached San Antonio in July after 4,300 miles of travel, it didn’t just light the cauldron, but the whole Alamo City.
When the cauldron was lit, a future of transforming the city’s sports landscape opened up. As we stand here in 2024, celebrating our 40th anniversary, we remember the culmination of the torch relay not as the end, but as the beginning.
For every mile the torch took in 1993, we have gone one further in our path to helping the San Antonio community. To celebrate not just the torch’s journey, but our own journey as well, we want to relive 40 Memorable Moments in San Antonio Sports history. Throughout the year, we will be highlighting moments from the past 40 years that have helped us get to where we are today.
The torch relay was made possible by those who dared to dream, and now we continue to do so, celebrating 40 years of sports in San Antonio, and only daring to dream bigger. Learn more about our 40th anniversary by visiting SanAntonioSports.org.