NCSS Charity Golf Tournament

August is just around the corner and the National Center for Sports Safety (NCSS) is celebrating an evening full of dinner and wine in honor of NCSS's ten year anniversary!

The NCSS was founded in 2001, to promote injury prevention and safety on all levels of youth sports. Over the past decade NCSS has helped to raise the national safety standards in youth sports. Through NCSS's online PREPARE course, NCSS has been able to not only help coaches become more aware of injury prevention but better prepared on the playing field. Through this education, athletes across the nation will ultimately benefit through safer playing fields and courts.

NCSS invites you to join us on Sunday, August 21, 2011 at Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar in Birmingham, Alabama. Reception to commence at 6:00pm with a live and silent auction, wine tasting and dinner to follow. Seating is limited, so please call NCSS to reserve your seats before Friday, August 5, 2011. Tickets are $175 per person.

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