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| - A new PPS joint-venture and partnership devoted to Olympic and Lifetime Sports, the Olympic Sports Division, can come to fill the void that occurs with the loss of intramurals. The Olympic Sports Division can be set apart in the budget from the PPS Athletic Department. PPS Athletics handles the management of football, basketball, soccer and volleyball. PPS Athletics handles the various WPIAL sports teams too. Meanwhile, this new entity, the Olympic Sport Division, facilitates the management, evaluation, development and finances for the sports of: Swimming, Golf, Tennis, X-Country, Track, Water Polo, Cycling, Triathlon, and Ultimate Frisbee. Activities for Ice Hockey, Rugby, Bowling, Fencing, Weightlifting, Table Tennis, Diving, Kayak, Crew, Judo and Skiing are a few of the options that should be quickly examined and evaluated. The Olympic Sports Division can consider other partnerships and associations. In due time, as the Olympic Sports Division takes root, a Community Congress would set policies in a democratic process. Sports participation can be driven by citizens, student desires, Citiparks, market opportunities, sponsors, and operate beyond the nay-sayers and lazy. Rather than cut 100% of the costs of certain sports out of the PPS budget, put some of that money into a “seed fund” for the Olympic Sports Division. Then expect the Olympic Sports Division to sustain itself. The Olympic Sports Division can be a PPS cost cutting measure. Outcome: To trim the PPS infrastructure in athletics to football, basketball, volleyball and other key teams in certain sports allows for the birth of the Olympic Sports Division. One day, more sports, more participation, and more people will want to stay in the city. Some goals for the Olympic Sports Division to negotiate include: paid permits for special events, shared student data, distance coaching, tech advances, PE credit, and booster groups in every school with team and activity web sites, season ticket plans, media guides and junior lessons for younger kids taught by supervised high school athletes. Example 1: The proposed Olympic Sport Division would have PPS cooperation but be more independent and much like a college sports athletic department that operates as a subsidiary. Example 2: The Pittsburgh Promise is an organization with a special relationship to PPS. Likewise, Pittsburgh needs an overlap of cooperation in sports and fitness among the city, schools, rec departments and others, including sports foundations. Example 3: In small municipalities, Rec Departments and local schools constantly overlap in caring for their children and facilities. However, in those smaller townships,the cooperation generally includes one to three people. In Pittsburgh, with so many schools and neighborhoods, the overlap is handled by hundreds of people. Example 4: CAPA has a Saturday music enrichment program for the whole city. (It was once called CENTERS.) Presently, the River City Brass Band is a sponsor. The effort helps to train young musicians. The Olympic Sports Division can train athletes like Centers trains musicians. But various days and various settings are required in sports.
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