Thursday, June 12, 2008

First Week in California

We left San Diego for Santa Monica, which is near LA. We finally hd our first event which was the Copa Cabana Sand Soccer Tournament. Friday the 6th we had to go to the location of the tournament and set up our tent the night before. Once we were set up we stayed around and hung out at the beach for the rest of the day. The next day was an early and long day. We were up at 6:30 in the morning for the sand soccer tournament. We stayed there till about two, then we had to pack everything up and head across town to a Major League Lacrosse game and do the same thing there. We got to the game a few hours before hand and set up our tent and all of our promotional gear. I had to talk with some of the operations people with the team because we were doing a TV time out contest on the field in the 3rd quarter. During the game we had a busy tent, with alot of people signing up our raffle. I hand picked the two kids that were going to participate in the contest. It was a chance for them to win $1000 shopping spree with Great Atlantic Lacrosse/Lacrosse.com. When it was all said and done they won $500 which they would split.
The following day we went to a Passback event in the inner city of LA. Passback is and organization in which Eurosport and US Soccer Foundations have partnered to send gently used soccer gear to those who cant afford it. So we went to a Passback clinic and gave away alot of free t-shirts, balls, gift cards, posters, catalogs, stickers and etc. The next few days we had off so we went to Huntington Beach or Surf City and I tried surfing for the first time. I was unsuccessful. On Wednesday we travel to Arizona for an event outside of Phoenix.

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