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| Saturday, 9 October 2004 |
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US Cultural Ambassadors to promote basketball in Lanka Colombo, Friday - Former Georgetown University basketball stars Courtland Freeman and Omari Faulkner will travel to Sri lanka next week as part of multi-country tour under a US government program to send American cultural envoys throughout the world. Both Freeman and Faulkner are recent graduates of Georgetown University, one of the best university basketball teams in the United States. Allen Iverson of the Phildelphia 76'ers and former great Patrick Ewing are both Georgetown graduates. While in Sri Lanka, the players will be conducting workshops with the Sri Lankan national basketball team and with local colleges. They will also play in a demonstration game with the national team on October 11. They will serve as the first cultural envoys from the US Department of State's pilot program (Culture Connect) focused on using basketball to increase mutual understanding and illustrate some of the positive aspects of American culture, including teamwork, free expression and hard work. They will travel to four regions and run basketball clinics, visit schools and speak with young people between the ages of 12 and 25 about sports and educational issues. |
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