HOUSTON, Oct. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The DICK'S
Sporting Goods Foundation and CALIA by Carrie Underwood, a fitness
and lifestyle brand created in partnership with DICK'S Sporting
Goods (NYSE: DKS) and multi-platinum superstar Carrie Underwood,
announced a $100,000 Sports Matter
grant to support girls youth and high school sports in Houston's Aldine Independent School District
(A.I.S.D.).
Since 2014, The DICK'S Sporting Goods Foundation has pledged
over $50 million to support teams and
raise awareness of the importance of youth sports across the
country through its Sports Matter initiative.
Earlier this year CALIA by Carrie Underwood, in partnership with
The DICK'S Foundation, announced plans to donate $500,000 in Sports Matter grants to girls
youth sports teams across the country. The first grant was awarded
in June in Underwood's hometown to Checotah (Okla.) School District
Girls' Athletic programs.
Today, in Houston, Underwood
and The DICK'S Foundation surprised A.I.S.D. female
student-athletes and coaches with a $100,000 Sports Matter grant during a
CALIA by Carrie Underwood meet and greet and fitness event at a
DICK'S Sporting Goods new store grand opening celebration at the
Baybrook Mall.
"I am so honored to partner with The DICK'S Sporting Goods
Foundation as we continue to give back to girls sports teams across
the country," said Underwood. "Through today's donation, we
aim to support the girls' athletic programs in Houston, providing many girls with the
opportunity to participate in sports."
The DICK'S Foundation will be partnering with Athletic Director,
Richard Delgado, and Program
Director of Resource Development, Stacey
Smith, to allocate the Sports Matter grant across
A.I.S.D. to the girls' sports teams.
"At DICK'S, we believe sports make people better, and through
this partnership, we are proud to provide more opportunities for
girls to play sports throughout the Aldine Independent School
District," said DICK'S Chairman & CEO Edward W. Stack. "The DICK'S Foundation and
our CALIA by Carrie Underwood brand look forward to this
$100,000 grant making a difference in
many girls' lives."
For more information on Sports Matter and CALIA by Carrie
Underwood, please visit SportsMatter.org and CaliaStudio.com,
respectively.
About The DICK'S Sporting Goods Foundation
The DICK'S
Sporting Goods Foundation is an exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit
corporation with a mission to inspire and enable sports
participation. It was created by DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc.
as a private corporate foundation to support DICK'S charitable and
philanthropic activities.
About Carrie Underwood:
Carrie Underwood emerged from the promise of her
2005 American Idol win to become a true
multi-format, multi-media superstar, spanning achievements
in music, television, and film. A seven-time GRAMMY®
Award winner, she has amassed over 100 major honors, sold 58
million records worldwide, and recorded 24 #1 singles, 13 of
which she co-wrote, with a catalog of songs that have been streamed
more than 1.9 billion times worldwide. The first female
artist to be twice named the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer
of the Year, Underwood was recognized
as Pollstar's top female country touring artist
for her headlining tours in 2008, 2010, and 2012. Her first
four studio albums, Some Hearts, Carnival
Ride, Play On, and Blown Away – each certified
multi-Platinum or Platinum, and each an American Music
Awards winner as Country Album of the Year – tallied an
incredible 38 weeks at #1 on Billboard's Top Country
Albums chart. In 2013, Underwood starred as Maria von
Trapp in NBC's three-hour holiday blockbuster, the
Emmy®-winning The Sound of Music Live!, whose airings
attracted 44 million viewers. In December of 2014, the Grand
Ole Opry member released her first hits
collection, Greatest Hits: Decade #1.
Billboard's best-selling hits album of 2015, the
chart-topping package was certified Platinum in January of 2016,
making Underwood the only country artist – and one of only six
all-genre artists – to launch an album to Platinum success since
the time of its release in December of 2014. Celebrating her
first 10 years of music, the collection's 25 songs included two new
#1 hits co-written by Underwood: the Platinum-certified,
GRAMMY-winning "Something in the Water," as well as the
Gold-certified "Little Toy Guns." This year, she will begin
her fourth season as the voice of primetime television's #1
program, Sunday Night Football, and return for a ninth
consecutive year as co-host of the CMA Awards. Underwood's
chart-topping, Gold-certified fifth studio album,
Storyteller, has produced three #1 singles with "Smoke
Break," "Heartbeat," and "Church Bells."
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