Partners’ Inter-American Sports Program is launched with support from the State Department to bring together people of different cultures through the “universal language” of sports. Over the next eight years, 2,545 coaches and athletes participate in exchanges, conducting clinics for 334,000 people.
Sports luminaries involved in exchanges include former Boston Celtics player Sam Jones, Brazil’s World Cup soccer coach Claudio Coutinho, the University of Indiana’s basketball coach Bobby Knight and Marquette University’s Al McGuire.