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Jessica Mendoza, Natasha Watley and Katie Smith of Protege Sports
Protege athletes Jessica Mendoza and Natasha Watley will be representing our country on the USA softball team while Katie Smith will be leading the women’s basketball team in the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing starting on August 8th. Mendoza, Watley & Smith are all members of the Protégé Sports online community and each have filmed numerous instructional video clips for the website. Mendoza and Watley have been USA team members since 2001 and 2002 respectively. Both played a vital role in the USA winning gold during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Smith won gold with the basketball team in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic games.

Mendoza is a 2002 graduate of Stanford University and a four-time first team All-American. She was named Softball Player of the Year in 2006 and has been a board member with the Women’s Sports Foundation and the NEA Foundation.

A product of UCLA in 2005, Watley set numerous school records while a bruin including hits (395), runs scored (252), at-bats (878), triples (21) and stolen bases (158). Her 158 stolen bases is more than triple that of the second-best total (51 by Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Freed).

Smith has been playing professional basketball in the ABL and WNBA since 1997. She was a member of the WNBA All-Decade Team and won a WNBA Title with the Detroit Shock in 2006. Smith has been a member of the USA basketball program since 1993.

Protege Sports, Inc. is the emerging leader in the multi-billion dollar sports industry to offer affordable world-class training … Anywhere, Anytime.

The site also provides sport-specific communities where users have the capability to upload video, blog, invite friends, schedule games, organize teams, and more, all of which is mobile device enabled. The Protege community space, combines authentic professional training with the interactivity of a “YouTube,” “iTunes” or “MySpace.”

The firm has a variety of athletes showcased on the website, including the Phoenix Suns’ Steve Nash, National Basketball Association Hall of Famer’s Bob Lanier and George Gervin and golfers Gary McCord and Peter Kostis.

Protege has created a delivery platform that seamlessly provides skill instruction from many of the world’s top professional athletes directly to PC and Wireless Mobile users. Visitors are able to learn from experts across a variety of sports and purchase specific training techniques to help them improve their abilities. The concept has positioned the company to aggressively pursue the 75 million amateur athletes in the USA alone, as well as large brands and retailers looking to advertise and build loyalty with consumers.

For more information on all the services that Protege has to offer, visit the official web site at www.ProtegeSports.com.

posted : 11-Aug-08

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