For more than a year, Active and HY-TEK have worked together to improve the offerings to HY-TEK's customers by integrating Active's online registration, marketing services and data collection with HY-TEK's desktop software applications. Following Active's acquisition of HY-TEK, we expect to provide customers with a single comprehensive software solution to meet their needs, as well as access to Active's extensive marketing resources.

HY-TEK offers a wide range of solutions to the swimming and track & field communities, including team management, meet management, athlete training and performance enhancement, database support and administrative tracking. HY-TEK's software is used by more than 20,000 professional leagues (USA Track & Field and USA Swimming), national governing bodies and high schools and colleges in more than 30 countries around the world.

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Date: Wednesday, August 27
Time: 10 AM - 11 AM Pacific / 1 PM - 2 PM Eastern
Cost: Complimentary
How: Via the Internet

ActiveEndurance is proud to present its latest Best Practices Web seminar, featuring Emily Nesselroad, Business Manager of ActiveRewards at Active Marketing Group. During the webinar, Emily will guide you through the intricacies of sponsorship development and management.

Spending on sponsorship by North American companies will grow at the rapid pace of 12.6 percent this year, with sports sponsorships garnering 69 percent - $11.6 billion - of the total! This is the perfect time to start learning about how to leverage your event's assets to attract and build sponsorships that will add value to your event and offer something back to your participants.

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Joe Quintanilla, the director of development for the Carroll Center for the Blind and event director for Vision 5K, is the driving force in conceiving the race and making it a success. Joe has been a tireless champion for the Vision 5K since its inception, and he has devoted countless hours organizing the event, promoting the abilities of blind athletes and training sighted runners and walkers for the Blindfold Challenge.

The 2008 Vision 5K raised more than $300,000 to support the five organizations that provide critical services to those with visual impairment:

• The Carroll Center for the Blind
• MAB Community Services
• National Braille Press
• Perkins School for the Blind
• New England College of Optometry/New England Eye Institute

Quintanilla is very pleased to have more than 800 runners this year.

"When I thought we should have a race where we could highlight the talents of blind athletes in 2001, I knew we had something special. Being a blind runner myself, I was aware of the need for blind athletes to have competitions and be recognized. It is rare to have a visually impaired division on a registration form, let alone offer prize money. The 5k shows that blind people are just as capable and talented as sighted people if given the opportunity and tools.

"We now have a Blindfold Challenge category, an opportunity for sighted runners to run with a blindfold on. They raise money, and participate in educational training. They walk away understanding that it isn't about what you can't see, but what you can do. I love the VISION 5K, because it gives blind people an opportunity to compete, do something recreational, and find out what they are capable of."

"We are poised to make this event a World Championship race for the Blind and the fundraising potential is immense."

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Responsibilities:

I am responsible for working with Triathlon and IronMan Event Directors throughout the United States, offering them online registration services for their event, marketing tools and services to help them grow and expand their event, and opportunities to create awareness for their event or charity they might be working with.

What I like to do in my spare time:

I love to run and train for races, especially the marathon and half-marathon. I play basketball, hike, do yoga, read, go to the beach and spend time with my friends and family. I am also working towards my Masters Degree in Nutrition.

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