POSTED: Wednesday April 1st 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PURESPORT-SPONSORED AARON PEIRSOL’S RACE FOR THE OCEANS
Event will Raise Funds to Keep the World’s Oceans Clean and Safe -- Olympian Peirsol to Host the Event; Olympian Rowdy Gaines to Serve as Emcee
Ft. Myers, FL (April 1, 2009) – Aaron Peirsol, the winner of seven gold medals in swimming, and PureSport, the new patent-pending performance drink that is revolutionizing the sports drink category, announced today that the second annual Aaron Peirsol’s Race for the Oceans, an open-water swimming fundraiser, will be held at Fort Myers Beach in Fort Myers, Florida, October 10-11, 2009. Aaron Peirsol’s Race for the Oceans raises funds and awareness for Oceana, a non-profit group established to protect and restore the world’s oceans and for which Peirsol is a spokesperson. Part of the proceeds from the event will go to clean up the oceans and raise awareness for the ongoing need to protect them.
Peirsol will host and participate in the event and Gold medal swimmer and NBC Olympic broadcaster, Rowdy Gaines, will serve as master of ceremonies for the event. Peirsol and Gaines will also teach a swim clinic for all ages on Saturday morning, October 10.
“Protecting our world’s oceans is very important to me because I grew up swimming in the
’s warm ocean waters and raise awareness for an important cause.”
Aaron Peirsol’s Race for the Oceans will feature a clinic, 500 yard Junior swim, a one kilometer swim, and a five kilometer swim and relays both masters and youth swimmers.
“Oceana is doing such important work.” said Michael Humphrey, CEO of HPL PureSport. And Aaron’s passion for this cause is contagious. After helping Aaron fuel his victory in the Beijing Olympics we are honored to team up with him again in helping to protect the world’s oceans.
For more information about the event, or to register to participate, please visit www.racefortheoceansevent.com.
About Aaron Peirsol
Aaron won two Gold Medals and a Silver Medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics adding to his impressive run in
where he won three Gold Medals, sweeping all the backstroke events. He now holds the World Record in the 100 backstroke and the 4 X 100 Medley Relay. Aaron went to his first Olympics at age 16 and set his first world record at age 17. His laid-back attitude out of the pool doesn’t hold true in the pool where he has become the dominant—and possibly the most influential—backstroker of all time.
About Oceana
Oceana campaigns to protect and restore the world’s oceans. Our teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life. Global in scope and dedicated to conservation, Oceana has campaigners based in North America (Washington, DC; New York; Juneau, AK; Los Angeles and Monterey, CA; and Portland, OR), Europe (Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Belgium) and South America (Santiago, Chile). More than 300,000 members and e-activists in over 150 countries have already joined Oceana. For more information, please visit http://www.Oceana.org.
About PureSport
PureSport is a brand of patent-pending, just-add-water performance drinks that feature the optimal carbohydrate-to-protein ratio of 2:67-to-1. Launched in July 2008, Pure Sport took center stage at the Beijing Olympics thanks to Olympians Michael Phelps, Brendan Hansen, Aaron Peirsol and Nastia Liukin, all of whom incorporated PureSport into their Olympic training programs. Created by Dr. John Ivy, chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin, with input from Phelps, PureSport is available in two formulations: PureSport Workout, which is used prior to and during exercise to improve endurance and reduce muscle tissue damage, and PureSport Recovery, which is used within 30 minutes of completing a workout to speed the storage of muscle and liver glycogen and promote muscle tissue repair. PureSport Workout and Recovery formulations are available in grape, fruit punch, lemon-lime and banana-berry. A carton of individual packets (15 servings) and canister (36 servings) of the PureSport Workout formula retails for a suggested $29.99 and $49.99, respectively. A carton of individual packets (10 servings) and a canister (11 servings) of the PureSport Recovery formula retails for a suggested $24.99 and $21.99, respectively. PureSport may be purchased at Sports Authority stores nationwide, RunTex stores in
Race for the Oceans Media Contact: PureSport Media Contact:
Bobby Brewer Karyn Ravin
PMG Sports Maletzky Media for Dynabrand
520-743-3979 212.829.0150 x 1
bobby@pmgsports.com karyn@maletzkymedia.com
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