[Alsfastball] USA Softball featured on the ARETE Honors this weekend on CBS

[Al Doran]

Subject: USA Softball featured on the ARETE Honors this weekend on CBS
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:55:53 -0500
From: "Brian McCall" <bmccall at softball.org>


USA Softball Olympic Team featured on the ARETE Honors on CBS; Finch ‘Cover 
Girl’ of Modern Bride

Oklahoma City, OK --- On Sunday, October 24 the USA Softball gold medal 
winning Olympic team will be honored on CBS (4 p.m. (CST), 5 p.m. (EST); 
3pm in NY & New England) for receiving the 2004 ARETE Courage in Sports 
Award.  Now in its second decade, the annual ARETE Honors pay tribute to 
those rare individuals who, by their refusal to accept limitations, 
demonstrate the ability of athletics to bring out the best in mankind.

Described as, “This most inspirational night in sports,” other recipients 
featured include Termite Watkins-an American who was in Iraq as an 
exterminator and ended up coaching the Iraqi boxing team at the Olympic 
Games; Dennis Walters-a golfer who was injured in a golf cart accident, is 
paralyzed and now has his own trick golf show; Ben Comen- a 17-year old 
cross country runner w/cerebral palsy; swimmer Michael Phelps; gymnast 
Carly Patterson; cyclist Lance Armstrong and the University of 
Connecticut's men’s and women’s basketball champions.


Fans check out news stands for the December/January 2005 issue of Modern 
Bride Magazine where USA Softball’s Jennie Finch (La Mirada, CA) is the 
cover girl as she prepares for her January wedding to fiancé Casey Daigle.


Brian McCall
Director of Communications
ASA/USA Softball
405-425-3463
<mailto:bmccall at softball.org>bmccall at softball.org
www.asasoftball.com or www.usasoftball.com


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