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Show SLC club to host LA camp Salt Lake City-based Sports Camps, Inc. is scheduled to sponsor one ot the largest youth sports camps in U S. history in the Los Angeles, Calif, area June 24-28. The camp will coincide with what is already acknowledged acknowl-edged as the largest youth sporting event in the country, the LA Games, which is expected to have a turnout ol between 12,(M)() and 15,000 youth. With five weeks of sign-up time remaining, the company is projecting 3,600 high school age athletes will participate in the five-day event. Planners expect higher figures by opening day. The camp will operate from three locations in Pasadena and Whittier. A unique feature of this program is its scale. Unlike most other sports camps that feature only one sport and one or two professional athletes, the June event will include seven men's and women's sports plus cheerleading arid will enlist the aid of at least 38 professional athletes from such organizations as the LA Raiders. LA Dodgers and Raiderettes cheerleaders. Planning for the camp has been a huge task for the young firm. Enlisting the participation of 38 very busy big name athletes, soliciting the support of many nationally recognized sponsors, obtaining community support and facilities in a location o(H) miles from Salt Lake, distributing 55,000 brochures in the LA area, and designing and producing thousands of T-shirts T-shirts and other mementos of the event has required many months of work from a small but dedicated si at f . All Sports Camps, Inc. camps are personally planned and conducted by professional athletes and coaches with full-time participation by these personnel. |