Sprint to Deliver VIP NASCAR Experience to More Than 50 Children and Family Members from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Plus, NASCAR fans in Southern California can meet Miss Sprint Cup on
March 18 at a Sprint retail store and enter to win a Pace Car ride
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sprint (NYSE: S) is pleased to join with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
to provide a VIP NASCAR experience to 52 children and family members.
The group will receive full access to the Sprint suite for NASCAR Sprint
Cup Series practice and the NASCAR Xfinity Series race. They will have a
chance to meet Miss Sprint Cup, see the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship
trophy, and visit with a NASCAR celebrity. The celebration gets underway
at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 19 at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana,
CA.
The children from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are all being treated
for serious illnesses and are patients in the hospital’s Pediatric
Dialysis Center, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorder Clinic, Pediatric
Gastroenterology Program, or its General Pediatrics department. The
patients vary in age – from 5 years old to teenagers – and all of them
are excited to attend a NASCAR-sanctioned race.
“We are grateful to provide the children and families of Children’s
Hospital Los Angeles with an unforgettable NASCAR VIP experience,” said
Kevin Kunkel, president-West Area, Sprint. “This is an opportunity for
Sprint to contribute to our community by helping these wonderful kids
take time from their treatment to enjoy a day of fun and excitement at
the Auto Club Speedway.”
Sprint is also offering local Southern California fans the opportunity
to meet Miss Sprint Cup and see the NASCAR Sprint Cup trophy from 5:30
p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Sprint store at 8022 Limonite Ave Ste
106, Riverside. NASCAR fans can enter to win tickets to the NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series race at Auto Club Speedway on Sunday, and one
grand-prize winner will have a chance to win a Pace-Car ride1 (contest
runs at the Sprint store from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.).
About Sprint
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company that creates more
and better ways to connect its customers to the things they care about
most. Sprint served more than 58.4 million connections as of Dec. 31,
2015, and is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying
innovative technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a
national carrier in the United States; leading no-contract brands
including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless;
instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a
global Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five years. You
can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com
or www.facebook.com/sprint
and www.twitter.com/sprint.
About Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is a nonprofit pediatric health care
organization dedicated to creating hope and building healthier futures
for children. Honored as the premier children’s hospital in California
and among the top 10 in the nation, we treat 111,000 young patients
annually from Los Angeles and around the world. As a pediatric charity
of choice, the hospital relies on the generosity of the community to
support its groundbreaking pediatric research and the complex care it
provides for critically ill and injured children. For more information,
visit CHLA.org.
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1No purchase necessary. Ends 3/18/16. Open to legal residents
of California, 18+. Void where prohibited. See Sprint store for rules.
Must be present to win.
Contacts
Sprint
John Votava, 949-242-9017
John.2.Votava@sprint.com
