Subject: The Huddle - adidas in Cyprus, R.C. Buford Receives Lifetime Achievement Award, and more!
From: "PeacePlayers International" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:15:00 -0500

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PPI Board Member Irina Pavlova Featured in ESPN's Grantland

[http://grantland.com/features/irina-pavlova-brooklyn-nets-mikhail-prokhorov/]
Congratulations to PPI Board Member Irina Pavlova, who was recently featured in Grantland - a popular sports and pop-culture blog started in 2011 by veteran writer and sports journalist Bill Simmons. 

"Irina Pavlova — Russian émigré, Google alumna, world-class operator, and one of the highest-ranking women in professional sports — is the handmaiden of power for the Brooklyn Nets. But can she really effect change in one of the league’s most tumultuous (and expensive) franchises?"

Read the entire article HERE[http://grantland.com/features/irina-pavlova-brooklyn-nets-mikhail-prokhorov/].

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R.C. Buford Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
 
[http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursnation/2015/02/28/spurs-buford-honored-at-sloan-conference/]
 
PPI Board Member and Spurs General Manager R.C. Buford was honored with a lifetime achievement award Saturday in Boston at the 2015 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Founded in 2006, the Sloan Conference brings together industry professionals and students to discuss the increasing role of analytics in the global sports industry.

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Meet LaToya Fisher, PPI – ME’s Newest Fellow

[http://blog.peaceplayersintl.org/2015/01/19/meet-latoya-fisher-ppi-mes-newest-fellow/]
 
A multi-sport athlete (basketball, volleyball, softball, American football), LaToya played four years of basketball at Shepherd University in West Virginia. In 2009, she entered Georgetown University's Sports Industry Management program but in February 2011, LaToya took take a leave of absence to teach English in South Korea for a year. LaToya started in PPI-ME last month and looks forward to learning from the staff and players and hopes to impact them as much as they will impact her.

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The PeacePlayer of the Month is Alex Bengivenni from Chapel Hill, NC!

 
"I am 12, and have chosen your PeacePlayers for my Christmas donation this year. I am basketball crazy, and maybe one day you will have a place for me to volunteer and make a difference.  I know how much basketball means, I have Asperger's and if it wasn't for basketball I wouldn't have any friends."
 
We are honored and privileged to have Alex's support!

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adidas, Lawrence Norman visit PeacePlayers-Cyprus[http://blog.peaceplayersintl.org/2015/02/27/adidas-lawrence-norman-visit-peaceplayers-cyprus/]
[http://blog.peaceplayersintl.org/2015/02/27/adidas-lawrence-norman-visit-peaceplayers-cyprus/]
PPI Board Member Lawrence Norman visited PeacePlayers-Cyprus last week to meet our young leaders and play basketball. Lawrence was joined by a group from the adidas Corporate office in Cyprus. For many of the adidas Cyprus team, this was the first time they have interacted with Turkish-Cypriot basketball players, and many stated repeatedly how much fun they had and how much they learned.
 
Lawrence told our staff, “PeacePlayers has truly changed my life as well, and seeing what happens when you put two kids together from different walks of life and seeing they can get along because of basketball, it’s amazing.”

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Sport Makes Magic in Brazil[http://blog.peaceplayersintl.org/2015/02/02/sport-makes-magic-in-brazil/]
Since 2012, PPI and Instituto Passe de Mágica (IPM), an organization that works in underprivileged neighborhoods in Sao Paulo, Brazil, have been working together to train young leaders on how to use sport to solve conflict. The partnership was developed through PPI's Sports and Peace Innovation Network (SPIN) with support from the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. 
 
IPM Technical Supervisor, Amanda Busch, said: "PPI helped enlarge our vision of the communities we serve, and helped us in the way we see and recognize each other."

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Student Coaches Learning to Manage Conflict In the Middle East[http://blog.peaceplayersintl.org/2015/01/29/student-coaches-learning-to-manage-conflict/]
[http://blog.peaceplayersintl.org/2015/01/29/student-coaches-learning-to-manage-conflict/]

In January, Israeli and Palestinian participants in PPI's Coaches for Reconciliation program (CCT) came together for a retreat on handling conflict situations within the basketball setting. The two-year program, which began last year, includes youth from both within PPI and outside the organization. In the past year, participants completed their basketball certification, first aid training, and began sessions on conflict education. The student coaches are also taking Arabic and Hebrew courses to equip them with basic language skills to use in
mixed team settings. By the end of next year, the students will receive a diploma from Zinman College at the Wingate Institute, a reputable sports education institution in Israel.

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Former PPI participant Sbahle joins PPI - South Africa as Fundraising and Marketing Manager[http://blog.peaceplayersintl.org/2015/02/24/dont-stop-til-you-get-enough-sbahle-mkhize-re-joins-ppi-sa/]

[http://blog.peaceplayersintl.org/2015/02/24/dont-stop-til-you-get-enough-sbahle-mkhize-re-joins-ppi-sa/]
A native of South Africa, Sbahle has been playing basketball since she was 5 years old. While studying at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in Durban, Sbahle became a PPI-SA coach. Within a year, Sbahle was selected for the Laureus Youth Empowerment through Sports (YES) Programme, where she met people from across the planet doing similar work. We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Sbahle to the team.

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PPI - Northern Ireland U14 Girls Look Back At Their First Season[http://blog.peaceplayersintl.org/2015/02/11/ppi-ni-u14-girls-look-back-at-their-first-season/]

[http://blog.peaceplayersintl.org/2015/02/11/ppi-ni-u14-girls-look-back-at-their-first-season/]
In 2013, PPI-NI created a U14 girls team to compete in the Northern Ireland Development League. While most basketball clubs in Northern Ireland represnt one religion or another, PPI-NI's U14 girls team is a mixed group of Catholics and Protestants from several divided communities around Belfast. Team coaches, which include former participants, promote diversity and encourage integration in practices and games. 
 
In the words of PPI-NI Project Coordinator, Joanne Fitzpatrick, "The girls are a true testament to the work that PeacePlayers is doing across our country."

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