It’s not easy to convey all the ways in which the community benefits from the power of sport. The power of sport is immeasurable. Statistics tell us that the kids in San Antonio Sports i play! afterschool program go to class more and test better. Did you know that 94% of female C-Suite executives played sports? There are ways we can try to put the power of sport into numbers. But at the end of the day, there’s no way we can truly show how it affects us, our communities, the world.
The power of sport is a force that runs through each School Park, each i play! tournament, each Corporate Cup tug of war match. The power of sport brings us together, lifts us up and puts a smile on our face. There’s no way to measure that.
But that’s what we do at San Antonio Sports. We uplift and transform our community through the power of sport. When a young child is given their first basketball during an i play! session, that’s the power of sport. That ball can take them places they never would have believed, whether directly or indirectly. Everyone around that child will benefit from that first ball. That’s the magic of the power of sport. That’s the magic of San Antonio Sports.
This memorable moment journey has brought us to today, San Antonio Sports’ 40th anniversary. The events covered in these memorable moments have transformed San Antonio. They’ve given us an Olympic Festival, NCAA Final Fours and the Alamodome. But the real mark they’ve made is on our communities.
There’s only one thing left to do, and that’s to bring this journey full circle, back to where it began. In 1993, the Olympic Torch arrived in San Antonio…