KOMPAN, Inc. KOMPAN has teamed up with NIKE and LA84 to acquaint the multisport abstraction of FREEGAME application Nike Grind surfaces to communities throughout parks in the City of Los Angeles. The LA84 Foundation and Nike accept a ambition to advance 84 sports accessories in the Los Angeles across in the next brace of years. We allotment the charge to accommodate the befalling for adolescence in Southern California to accept a above sports experience. In accession to acceptable coaches and equipment, adolescence should accept safe, able accessories to play the action of their choice. The FREEGAME cloister provides an ambiance area adolescence can apply on accomplishment development and play. We are admiring to be alive with KOMPAN to accompany FREEGAME courts to communities in Southern California. KOMPAN’s charge to architecture advantageous communities through acceptable play is at the amount of our company. KOMPAN articles are complete application non-toxic, recyclable materials, in acquiescence with the a lot of acrimonious ecology standards. FREEGAME’s multi-sport abstraction gives all athletes, behindhand of age or ability, a abode for action and play – a aggregate that energizes everyone’s time at the esplanade and helps body a convalescent community.
Tacoma, WA December 10, 2008 – KOMPAN, Inc. has teamed up with NIKE and LA84 to acquaint the multisport abstraction of FREEGAME application Nike Grind surfaces to communities throughout parks in the City of Los Angeles. FREEGAME is a new abstraction to the amusement bazaar and can be acclimated for soccer, volleyball, basketball, acreage hockey or any bold players create.
Patrick Escobar, Vice President of Grants and Programs for the LA84 Foundation, stated, "The LA84 Foundation and Nike accept a ambition to advance 84 sports accessories in the Los Angeles across in the next brace of years. We allotment the charge to accommodate the befalling for adolescence in Southern California to accept a above sports experience.” Escobar continues, “In accession to acceptable coaches and equipment, adolescence should accept safe, able accessories to play the action of their choice. The FREEGAME cloister provides an ambiance area adolescence can apply on accomplishment development and play. We are admiring to be alive with KOMPAN to accompany FREEGAME courts to communities in Southern California.”
Alicia Procello Maddox , Corporate Responsibility Manager of Nike West stated, “At NIKE we accept that at the affection of action is play. With the LA84 Foundation, we’re allowance to accompany to communities in Los Angeles a fun, eco-friendly, multi-sport band-aid that makes anybody an amateur and let’s humans play. Nike Grind surfaces, utilizing recycled shoes, represent NIKE’s addition for advised architecture and an important allotment of our charge to sustainability. Combining NIKE Grind and FREEGAME creates a sports amphitheatre that is as acceptable for the athletes as the ambiance they play in.”
Tom Grover, President of KOMPAN, Inc. added, “KOMPAN’s charge to architecture advantageous communities through acceptable play is at the amount of our company. KOMPAN articles are complete application non-toxic, recyclable materials, in acquiescence with the a lot of acrimonious ecology standards.” Grover continues, “FREEGAME’s multi-sport abstraction gives all athletes, behindhand of age or ability, a abode for action and play – a aggregate that energizes everyone’s time at the esplanade and helps body a convalescent community.”
The aboriginal FREEGAME cloister has been completed at the Algin Sutton Recreation Center and was committed with the advice of the association and Mexican soccer star, Jorge Campos.
Mark Mariscal, Superintendent of the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks Pacific Region declared that, “We’re application the FREEGAME cloister to run adolescent (ages 4-8) adolescence soccer clinics and a alliance for ages 5-15. The FREEGAME cloister is heavily acclimated for basketball aces up amateur seven canicule a week. The cloister provides a safe ambiance for amusement activities. Projects including FREEGAME are an asset to the Department and are able-bodied accustomed by the communities we serve. This blazon of public-private affiliation sometimes is the alone acumen we are able to accomplish esplanade improvements such as this court.”
About The LA84 Foundation
The LA84 Foundation is able with surplus funds from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Its mission is to serve adolescence through action and to access ability of action and its appulse on people’s lives. The LA84 Foundation supports a advanced arrangement of adolescence sports programming. We accolade grants to adolescence sports organizations aural the eight southern a lot of counties of California. We aswell conduct our own adolescence sports and apprenticeship apprenticeship programs, a amount of which accept become models for agnate programs nationwide
The LA84 Foundation operates the better sports analysis library in North America, the Paul Ziffren Sports Resource Center. It is a advanced analysis ability and acquirements centermost committed to the advance of sports ability and scholarship.
The LA84 Foundation is a clandestine nonprofit institution. The Foundation has committed added than $177 actor to accomplish its mission back 1985. To date, two actor boys and girls, and added than 1,000 adolescence sports organizations throughout Southern California accept benefited from the endowment. They will be abutting by abounding added in the years ahead. For added information, appointment http://www.la84foundation.org.
About NIKE Reuse-A-Shoe Program
As allotment of Nike's charge to abbreviation its ecology impact, the Reuse-A-Shoe affairs has provided Nike Grind recycled actual to about 300 action and amphitheater surfacing projects donated by Nike programs in communities about the apple – in accession to the bags of bartering projects completed by our surfacing partners. By partnering with Nike's amusing albatross programs, Nike has added an innovative, acceptable focus to important community-building projects from their own backyard of Portland, Oregon, to close cities, baby towns and rural areas in about a dozen countries.
For added advice on Nike's albatross initiatives, as able-bodied as data on association abutment programs and to administer for a Bowerman grant, appointment http://www.nikebiz.com/responsibility.
About KOMPAN
KOMPAN, Inc. is a apple baton in the design, accomplish and business of acceptable bartering playgrounds and multi-sport able-bodied equipment. KOMPAN specializes in designing unique, age-appropriate, and top above recreational articles that amalgamate the accomplished ecology standards and aberrant play value. KOMPAN offers different and arduous articles for every date of development. For added advice about KOMPAN, our articles and our ecology stance, amuse appointment our website at www.kompan.com.
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