Tragedy Creates New Event to Benefit Non-Profit
The family of 16-year-old amateur motocross racer, Ricky James, has decided to hold a fundraising golf tournament with the Next Steps Foundation in an effort to raise awareness and funds for research to cure spinal cord injuries.
Murrieta, CA (PRWEB) August 7, 2005 -- Due to the recent injury of Ricky
James, an upcoming amateur motocross racer that left the 16 year old paralyzed
on March 10th, 2005, the James family has decided to hold a fundraising golf
tournament with the non-profit Next Steps Foundation, California chapter (www.next-steps.org) to raise awareness and funds for the
research to cure spinal cord injury.
“I was happy to hear from Rick
(father of Ricky), despite the tragedy, I wanted to let him know, as a motor
sports competitor and racer, that there was hope,” says Next Steps Founder and
Kennedy Krieger Institute's International Center for Spinal Cord Injury Director
of Development Pat Rummerfield. “I raced cars and Ricky raced motorcycles, so we
had something in common,” says Rummerfield. “I was elated when I heard that
Ricky and his family wanted to do something that will benefit spinal cord injury
research.”
The tournament is scheduled for Oct. 5, 2005, and will be held
at the Trilogy Golf Club at Glen Ivy in Corona, Ca. and is open to anyone who
wants to participate or contribute to the Next Steps Foundation. The tournament
has many different sponsorship levels and is expected to raise over $75,000.00
for the non-profit.
All net proceeds from the event will go to the
Reeve-Irvine Research Center (www.reeve.uci.edu) at the University of California, Irvine
through the Next Steps Foundation, California chapter. The research center is
working on new and promising technologies to cure paralysis caused by spinal
cord injury.
Sponsorship levels for the tournament range from $200 to
Titanium Corporate sponsorship level of $5,000.
“We wanted to have a way
for almost anyone to participate.” says James.
For more information call
Rick James at (909) 376-3302 or visit the Ricky James website at www.rickyjames824.com
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/8/prweb269827.htm