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Event:  Stanford University Presents:

        The 1994 Western Regional Footbag Championships and Festival
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        **A benefit for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation**

Dates:  Saturday, May 28, 8am-7pm
        Sunday,   May 29, 9am-7pm
        Monday,   May 30, 9am-6pm   (FINALS 1PM-6PM)

Site:   Stanford University Campus
        Wilbur Field (on Campus Drive East)

Size:   120 competitors; 1,500 spectators

Host:   The Stanford University Footbag Club
        P.O. Box 5549
        Stanford, CA  94309

Contacts:
        Western Regional Footbag Hotline:  415-722-4761

        Stanford Univ. Footbag Club  <footbag@gregorio.stanford.edu>
        Steve Goldberg, Coordinator  <brat@apple.com>
        Julie McClung                <jmcclung@cup.hp.com>
        Brent and Jody Welch         <welch@parc.xerox.com>
        Price Lawhon                 <peppers@leland.stanford.edu>

Format: This is an outdoor, fun, family event with good music, free
demonstrations and instruction, free prizes, and world-class competition.
Novice events will run all three days (sign up FREE by 10 a.m. to ensure
eligibility to win prizes). There will also be demonstrations of freestyle
Frisbee(R) during the final net and freestyle rounds on Monday afternoon.

MOSAIC USERS: SEE THE WEB PAGE AT THE FOLLOWING URL:
ftp://gregorio.stanford.edu/www/footbag/regionals.html


PRESS RELEASE:

        F A N C Y   F O O T W O R K    O N    T H E    F A R M

Friday, May 20, 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: Kenny Shults (Portland, OR) with over 40 world titles,
women's world champion freestyle team Sam Conlon and Lisa McDaniel (El
Cerrito, 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 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, Sipa Sipa, Wham-O,
Whole Foods Market, 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, UpTime, and Chums.

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 the Western
Regional Footbag Hotline at 415-722-4761.