Releases in ‘ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex’
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Disney Cup International Soccer Tournament Features Teams From Across the Globe
More than 3,000 players, 200 teams from around the world competed in prestigious youth soccer tournament LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. – Nearly 3,000 youth soccer players from around the world competed at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex July 16-21 in one of America’s largest international youth soccer tournaments, the Disney Cup International. The […]
Disney Soccer, ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, Youth Sports
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AAU Basketball Championships Underway at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex
The nation’s top youth players are showcasing their skills as teams from across the country compete for an AAU National Championship title. LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (July 3, 2012) — The nation’s top youth basketball players and teams are vying for a title as the Amateur Athletic Union’s Basketball National Championships are underway at the ESPN Wide […]
AAU Basketball Championships, ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, Youth Sports
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America’s Youth Athletes Enter All New “World” at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Disney
Nation’s leading multi-sport venue for amateur and professional events re-launched as ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and features signature ESPN elements; one-of-a-kind initiative to take youth sports to the next level LAKE BUENA VISTA,Fla.- The widely acclaimed sports facility at Walt Disney World Resort was re-launched in Feb. 2010 as ESPN Wide World of […]
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Disney Soccer Academy Offers Youth Chance to Learn from International Soccer Stars
More than 300 youth soccer players will attend the four-day camps, which feature instruction by top international players from the English Premier League. LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (June 20, 2012) – For the next two weeks, youth soccer players have a rare opportunity to learn from some of the world’s premier soccer stars at the second annual […]
Disney Soccer, ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, Youth Sports
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Johnson races students, golfs at Disney
Five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson visited Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. on June 13, 2012. Johnson joined approximately 40 Daytona Beach-area elementary school children at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. The children participated in athletic drills with select Olympic athletes and NFL players before moving inside to build their […]
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Gridiron Kings Selected at ESPN Wide World of Sports
Champion Gridiron Kings, the nation’s elite high school football event featuring 64 of the best skill position players in the country, has chosen the first 38 student athletes invited to participate in the 7-on-7 games, skill challenges and performance training that take place at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Fla. during […]
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ESPN Wide World of Sports Home to Olympic Hopefuls
Leading up to London 2012, a number of the world’s top athletes called ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex their training home. Brooks Johnson, the 2010 USATF Coach of the Year, trained a team of five Olympic-caliber athletes, including 2008 Olympic medalists David Oliver and David Payne, and top US women athletes Tiffany Ross Williams, Connie […]
Brooks Johnson, ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, Professional Sports
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U.S. Qualifies 10 to finals at 2012 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Age Group Championships
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The 2012 World Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships made its North American debut April 16-18 at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Competitors from 23 countries flipped, twisted and danced their way to World titles and berths to the 2013 World Games. […]
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Spring Training at Disney Wraps Up for Atlanta Braves
The 2012 Atlanta Braves spring training season at Disney wrapped up its 15th edition on April 2. The noon Mets game concluded a month-long slate of 17 home games (and one rainout) at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. The Braves faced the Mets three times, along with visits from the Yankees, world-champion Cardinals and Detroit […]
Atlanta Braves Spring Training, ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, Professional Sports
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ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex Celebrates 15th Anniversary
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (March 28, 2012)–With the Braves-Yankees spring training game today at Champion Stadium, the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex celebrates its 15th anniversary. With the swing of a bat, the sports complex officially opened March 28, 1997 with a Braves-Reds spring training game under the lights that featured the likes of […]