{"40512":{"#nid":"40512","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Paralympics Swim Meet to be Held at Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBlazeSports Georgia and the U.S. Paralympics present the 2006 BlazeSports Georgia Open U.S. Paralympic Swim Meet and Clinic January 20-22 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis Long Course U.S. Paralympic  Open competition is open to swimmers with disabilities from all nations. It will be governed by the swimming technical rules of the International Paralympic Committee.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Aquatic Center was the site of the 1996 Paralympic Games swimming competition. The facility features an indoor 50-meter, 10-lane competition pool, plus a dive pool that may be used for warm-up\/warm-down during competition. The Aquatic Center is located in the Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBlazeSports Georgia is a program of the U.S. Disabled Athletes Fund (USDAF) which is the legacy program of the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. It is funded in part by a grant from the State of Georgia and individual grants and donations. This is a Tenth Anniversary Celebration event for USDAF, and it commemorates a decade of offering sports for children and adults with physical disabilities.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHeadquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. Paralympics is a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee, formed in May 2001 with the goal of enhancing programs, obtaining funding and providing competitive opportunities for athletes with physical disabilities to participate in Paralympic sports.  Its mission is to be the world leader in the Paralympic movement and to promote excellence in the lives of all people with physical disabilities.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The 2006 BlaseSports Georgia Open U.S. Paralympic Swim Meet and Clinic will be held at Tech\u0027s Campus Recreation Center.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Campus Recreation Center hosts meet Jan 20-22"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2005-12-22 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:00:59","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.blazesports.com\/DesktopDefault.aspx","title":"BlazeSports"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2029","name":"Competition"},{"id":"3061","name":"meet"},{"id":"3058","name":"Paralympics"},{"id":"170531","name":"swim"},{"id":"167350","name":"swimming"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}