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GOAL Students Flourish As Leaders; First GOAL Female Admitted To Area Private School

Date: Monday June 29, 200

Contact: Darius Shirzadi, Executive Director
Project GOAL, Inc.
79 Savoy Street
Providence, RI 02906
E-mail: darius@projectgoal.org
Phone: 401 258 2300
www.projectgoal.org

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Project GOAL continues to push its students to their limits to be the best students, athletes, and people they can be. Project GOAL students who received scholarships to attend Rhode Island area private schools through Project GOAL’s assistance are demonstrating leadership qualities in their schools. Project GOAL also continues to place students who show academic and athletic excellence into private schools, on scholarship, despite the current state of the economy.

Eric Lara, of Pawtucket, will be attending the Student Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. Eric is one of six students representing Rhode Island. The conference is being hosted by the National Federation of High School Athletics and all expenses of the trip are paid by the Rhode Island Interscholastic League. Luis Navas, also of Pawtucket, has been selected as one of four prefects for the 2009/2010 school year by the Rocky Hill School faculty and headmaster. This is the highest leadership position for a student at the school. Both students have been attending the Rocky Hill School (East Greenwich, RI) since 2007.

Project GOAL’s first female student, c, will be attending the Moses Brown School for the 2009/2010 school year. (picture attached of Catalina Mazo and Boston Breakers Goalkeeper Allison Lipsher)

Project GOAL, Inc. (Greater Opportunity for Athletes to Learn), is an after-school initiative that partners with the Central Falls School Department, SCOPE/Central Falls School District, Providence School Department, and the Soccer Rhode Island Olympic Development Program. Project GOAL’s mission is to facilitate the development of New England’s disadvantaged inner city youth through after-school tutoring, health education, and soccer-related programs.

A non-profit 501©3 organization, Project GOAL, Inc., is comprised of professionals from the business, academic, health and soccer communities who support the project in achieving its objectives in creating opportunities for its “GOALie” participants.

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