Local News in Brief : Youth Sports Grants Made

The Amateur Athletic Foundation, the group responsible for disseminating Southern California’s share of the 1984 Olympic surplus to youth sports projects, on Friday awarded $422,188 in 10 grants, bringing to $13.3 million the value of 204 grants given since the Los Angeles Games.

The largest of the new grants was $100,794 to the Constitutional Rights Foundation to continue the development and expansion of a Sports and the Law program in Southern California schools. A $100,000 grant was also made to the Carpinteria Community Swimming Pool Assn. to assist in the completion of a 25-meter pool in that Santa Barbara County community.

Other grants included $61,000 to the Southern California Badminton Assn. to expand its youth badminton program; $59,500 to the Mt. SAC Relays to fund a youth day; $48,000 to the National Foundation of Wheelchair Tennis to support three sports programs; $17,894 to the Eastside Boys and Girls Club to purchase sports equipment and $20,000 to the Pacific Coast Gymnastics Club in Camarillo for equipment.

Grants of $5,000 went to the Camp Fire Council in Glendale; the Phoenix Athletic Club in South-Central Los Angeles and the Brea Pop Warner Football League.