Western Regional Footbag Championships and Festival: Press Release

When: May 28th - 30th, 1994.

FANCY FOOTWORK ON THE FARM

Monday, May 2, 1994 (Palo Alto, California). The 9th annual Western Regional Footbag Championships and Festival, presented by the Stanford University Footbag Club, will be held Memorial Day Weekend (May 28, 29, and 30) at Wilbur Field on the Stanford University campus. This event is one of the largest footbag tournaments in the world, and will be attended by the top contenders who will be competing at the World Championships in Menlo Park in July. This tournament is open to entrants from all around the world, and offers events for advanced, intermediate, and novice players. A portion of the proceeds from this event will benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Footbag is a competitive sport, similar to the popular game played with the Hacky Sack(R). At this tournament, players will compete in one or more of the following established games: Footbag Net, a singles or doubles net game, like tennis or volleyball, where players use only their feet to kick the footbag over a 5-foot-high net; Freestyle Footbag, a singles or team judged competition, where players perform footbag tricks in choreographed routines set to music; and Footbag Golf, much like the popular disc golf game.

This event will be attended by most of the best footbag athletes in the world, including: world footbag net champion Danny Borsky (Vancouver, B. C.); women's singles net world champion Jody Welch (Mountain View, CA); women's world champion freestyle team Sam Conlon and Lisa McDaniel (Berkeley, CA), and many more. Competitors will travel from Canada and all of the western states for this event. Many of the top-ranked women and men in the sport live here in the Bay Area.

Competitors and spectators of all abilities are welcome. There will be several free events for first-time and novice competitors, with opportunities to win prizes donated by the sponsors. There will also be a full-time disc jockey on the tournament site providing music for everyone to kick to. There is no admission charge for spectators. World-class net and freestyle finals will begin at 1:00 pm on Monday, May 31.

Sponsored by Stanford University, DPR Construction, Wham-O, Whole Foods Market, Sipa Sipa, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Flying Clipper Professional Footbags, GTE Mobilnet, I Dig Footbag, Palo Alto Sport Shop & Toy World, R. W. Knudsen Family, Albion Spring Water, Victory Sound, UpTime, Kick in the Grass Freestyle Footbags, Cole's Footbags, Mambosok, Togo's of University, Chums, and Wall City.

Stanford University Footbag Club is a non-profit organization. This tournament is sanctioned by the Bay Area Footbag League, the World Footbag Association, and the International Footbag Advisory Board.

For more information, write brat@apple.com or call 408-773-9110.

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