Student-Athletes Find Support Network, Creating Leaders In Sports Foundation

Foundation Aims to Partner With Corporations, Organizations and Key Community- Based Groups to Combat Childhood Obesity

ATLANTA, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of sports-minded Atlanta executives with long-running personal commitments to scholastic athletics has founded a new non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, Creating Leaders In Sports Foundation, to help talented student-athletes with sports training, operating aid, competition expenses and education, as well as to promote awareness of the childhood-obesity epidemic and the importance of physical fitness.

National data on childhood obesity reveals that many children are simply on a road to early cases of diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, death and other diseases, said Daniel Rimmey, a Foundation board member and spokesperson.

For instance, according to the American Obesity Association, obesity in children and adolescents is a serious issue with many health and social consequences that often continue into adulthood. Two of the leading underlying causes of obesity are a lack of physical activity and improper dieting.

Statistics from the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion indicate that the prevalence of obesity has more than doubled over the last 20 years among children ages 6 to 11 and has more than tripled for children ages 12 to 19.

"These negative trends not only have dire implications for the welfare of our children's future health, but they also carry serious economic implications for our families and communities at large," Rimmey said. "When this trend is projected out over the next ten to twenty years what does it imply? Major corporations and organizations whose profitability is from sales related to any sports paraphernalia and physical fitness will experience major financial losses."

Rimmey added that the Foundation will work to partner with other
foundations and organizations to provide scholarships and bring national
awareness to the significance of physical fitness and its relationship to
improving a child's confidence, self-esteem and academic performance in
school.

The Foundation's board members believe that educational institutions,
organizations, major corporations and health and fitness chains can show
their community concern and awareness of this American problem by
partnering with the Foundation. MORE HERE

Foundation's Website: http://www.creatingleadersinsports.org

The Foundation's Website gives visitors the ability to chat with Foundation staff and post comments to a discussion board. It also contains links to educational resources for students and parents that, for example, outline various study guides and strategies.

Contact: Daniel Rimmey at 770-490-1084.