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Project N.Ex.T. (New Expectations Today) – is a three-year San Diego County pilot program that connects physically challenged mentees with similarly challenged mentors. By educating recently injured or inactive individuals about available fitness and sports opportunities, we believe we can create better and more consistent outcomes for ...
David C. Copley (January 31, 1952 – November 20, 2012) was an American publishing heir, on the board of the Copley Press for over thirty years, becoming president and owner, as well as publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a noted philanthropist.
San Diego Business Journal; San Diego City Beat; San Diego Jewish Journal; San Diego Magazine; San Diego Reader; San Diego Union-Tribune (acquired by Tribune Publishing) Times of San Diego; Retail. Le Travel Store (closed) Mor Furniture; Petco; PriceSmart; Sports. BikeBandit; BMC USA; Competitor Group, Inc. Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles ...
Appointed executive director of the National Fitness Foundation. Inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame [7] [13] 1988: Returned to the Central Valley, in rural Fresno County. 1996: Olympian Sim Iness died. He was Mathias's high school classmate and teammate at the 1952 Olympics. Doctors discovered a cancerous tumor in Mathias's throat ...
In 2005 CONNECT was a co-founder of the Wireless Life Sciences Alliance, [7] in 2008 CONNECT founded CleanTECH San Diego, [8] and in 2009 founded San Diego Sport Innovators, now headed by Bill Walton. [9] San Diego Sport Innovators was created in 2008 by Camille Sobrian and Marco Thompson by partnering with sponsor Dick Kintz from Shepard Mulin ...
Life Fitness created the first computerized strength training program in 1988. [3] In 1991, Bally Total Fitness sold the company to Mancuso & Company, a private equity firm, for $62.5 million. [4] The same year, Life Fitness expanded into treadmills. Life Fitness was acquired by Brunswick Corporation in June 1997 for $310 million.
The President's Challenge (also called Presidential Champions) was an American program promulgated by the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition that aimed to encourage all Americans to "make being active part of their everyday lives" and to be physically fit. The President's Challenge was introduced by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 ...
Conrad Prebys (August 20 1933 – July 24 2016) was a property developer and philanthropist based in San Diego, California. [1] [2] Prebys was born on August 20 1933 in South Bend, Indiana, and graduated from Indiana University. [1] [3] He moved to San Diego in 1965 and co-founded Progress Construction. He bought out his partner in 1980.