WHAT: Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper will hold a press conference to announce the multi-year booking of the nation�s largest girls� junior volleyball event, which will bring 8,000 team members and up to 20,000 family, coaches and spectators to Denver in 2005 with an economic impact of $10-$13 million. Many of the nation�s top women volleyball stars have played in this event in previous years, including 2004 Olympic Beach Volleyball Gold Medalists Kerri Walsh and Misty May, and 2000 Olympians Jennifer Johnson Jordan and Annett Davis.

WHERE: Civic Center Park, directly in front of the City & County Building. ( A volleyball court will be set up on the lawn behind the �City of Denver� flower display, facing the City & County Building).

WHEN: Thursday, September 30, 12:30 p.m.

WHO: Officials from the ASICS Colorado Crossroads Junior National Volleyball Qualifier, the Front Range Volleyball Club and the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau will be on hand.

VISUALS: Mayor Hickenlooper and a team of his cabinet and administration members will play a timed exhibition match against a junior girls volleyball team, Front Range

14-Amber. This was the first team in Colorado to win a Junior Olympic Gold Medal in 2001.

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Media Contact: Jill Strunk Public Relations Manager Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau 1555 California St., Suite 300 Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 303.571.9451 Fax: 303.892.1636 jstrunk@dmcvb.org Web site: www.denver.org Celebrating our 95th Year of Promoting Denver, the Mile High City