Teen Writer Donates Textbooks to 100 Libraries to Celebrate 5th Anniversary of Dramatic 1999 WomenÂ?s Entire world Cup Soccer Victory
St. Petersburg, FL (PRWEB) July 2, 2004
To help celebrate the 5 12 months anniversary of the historic WomenÂ?s Planet Cup victory on July 10th, local teen writer, Leah Lauber, is donating a hundred copies of her guide, Soccer Desires, to libraries nationwide. Lauber will also be donating an additional 150 copies to nearby literacy groups to be decided to provide the complete retail appeal of her donation to practically $ 5,000.00.
Soccer Goals describes Leah’s genuine adventure subsequent the U.S. WomenÂ?s National Soccer Crew, as a enthusiast and twelve-year-aged Junior Reporter for the St. Petersburg Instances during the history-producing 1999 WomenÂ?s Entire world Cup.
Leah, these days a 17-12 months-aged substantial school senior, wrote the 92-web page guide 5 many years ago and it is illustrated with far more than 200 colour pictures, most taken by her father, Chris, originally intended for the family members picture album. LeahÂ?s family self-published Soccer Dreams after the household had trouble generating fascination from established publishers.
Â?I wrote Soccer Dreams for a number of factors,Â? mentioned Leah. Â?I needed to share my journey with other enthusiasts, promote the positive values I learned from the crew members, and motivate visitors to dream large. Donating these guides to libraries will help me attain my ambitions, even though generating the guide far more readily available to any individual close to the chosen libraries.Â?
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The WomenÂ?s World Cup is broadly regarded as a significant milestone, with the most significant crowd ever before for a womenÂ?s sports celebration assembled at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California to watch the U.S. squad defeat China in dramatic vogue.
After 120 minutes under the scorching sun resulted in a scoreless tie, a lot more than 90,000 spectators and forty million television viewers witnessed the victory by the slimmest of margins – the notorious penalty kick by Brandi Chastain, followed by the memorable minute of Chastain ripping off her jersey in Â?a moment of short-term insanity,Â? as she afterwards referred to as it.
Profitable the 1999 WomenÂ?s Planet Cup was not too long ago regarded by ESPN as 1 the Â?Top 20 Sports StoriesÂ? during the very last 25 many years, as voted by a panel of 100 journalists.
Although many of the libraries decided on are in LauberÂ?s residence state of Florida, 62 of the libraries are becoming sent by priority mail to libraries coast-to-coast in 17 other says. A total list is incorporated under.
