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Sports for Character Development and Crime Prevention <br /> Communications methods in local area give opportunities to pool marketing efforts <br /> - Emphasis on strengthening the family; put parents and children together in healthy activities <br /> - Growing support research which links fitness activities with improved quality of life <br /> - Coordinate planning and funding "More bang for the buck" <br /> Use of existing facilities more aggressively: After hour school use; Vacation time use; don't <br /> shut them down; Community centers begging to be used, not iust open gym = basketball <br /> - Increased emphasis on healthy lifestyles <br /> - We now recognize that we need to provide more athletic opportunities for our forgotten <br /> adolescents. <br /> Growing interest in amateur athletics throughout the county <br /> Community requesting more programs for youth <br /> Increasing public awareness of benefits of sports in society <br /> Public support for sports as an effective way to fight crime <br /> Sports recognized nationally as deterrent to delinquency <br /> - Low gang member; people will soon demand more sports for kids <br /> Greater need for after school structured sports participation as alternatives to reduced school <br /> day <br /> Opportunity to develop more scholarship possibilities for kidsports to elite club level participation <br /> Interest in Facilities Development <br /> - External opportunities; development of Springfield sports complex <br /> Our area could attract major competitions if adequate facilities were present <br /> - Lack of current facilities allows more interest to be generated for a central complex <br /> Springfield's development of a sports complex <br /> Willingness of community to support youth including youth sports <br /> Developing new, state of the art facilities that will reach the most people possible <br /> Population <br /> Economic stability/growth <br /> Eugene's low cost of living bringing in new families <br /> - Cycling growth in populations <br /> - Population growth <br /> - New economic or manufacturing development and therefore new funding, financing sources <br /> - Increasing populations in Eugene /Springfield area <br /> - Aging population that is used to participate in sports,have $ to pay <br /> Increasing population base <br /> - Good for economics can be demonstrated by numbers <br /> - Population growth <br /> - Area growth <br /> Fitness <br /> National emphasis on physical fitness of youth, we can be an example <br /> A growing move towards a more fit, active lifestyle, and opportunity to provide activities <br /> to suit <br /> - Keep children involved in sports for life and health <br /> - Irtter%t in programs with emphasis on youth fitness <br /> Increasing interest in sports and sports diversity <br /> - Hes II-awareness <br /> - Increase in amateur athletic participation and organized events;regionally and nationally <br /> Increasing national interest in non - professional sports competition <br /> - Increase in club sports vs. varsity sports <br /> 7 <br />