The United States plans to send four show jumpers, three dressage horses and five eventing horses to the Olympics, in addition to two alternates in show jumping and dressage, said James Wolf, executive director for sport programs for the United States Equestrian Federation, the sport's national governing body.
He joined Pirelli in 1992 and has led the motor sports program for 11 years.
A company news release said that this was its "first move to support sports program for resource countries".
The final two grants, also aimed at specific age groups, will go to young women who have had an effect on an existing program (set up a sports program for children at a shelter for battered women, for example).
That's when Dr. Fox, who heads Star Kids, a Rockland County-based sports program for youths facing drug and other problems, first told Ms. Lasker, a councilwoman in Clarkstown, N.Y., that he wanted more than a political alliance with her.
But Mr. Foreman, 53, had a full life outside, with a large extended family and volunteer duties that included running the youth sports program for his Roman Catholic parish, Immaculate Conception, on Staten Island.
The district spent $1.1 million on athletic programs last year, but the group hopes to raise $950,000 to finance the entire sports program for the coming school year, including seventh- and eighth-grade teams, and boys' and girls' modified, freshman, junior varsity and varsity high school teams.
And like typical non-military communities, they have sports program for kids.
For the summer, we work hand-in-hand with a local non-profit, Backyard Sports, to create a four-week Camp Shape sports program for students in grades 3-7.
But voices like theirs helped persuade county officials to save a storied sports program for teenage boys who've landed on the wrong side of the law.
