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ThomasTech, a software and systems integrator that builds content
management and publishing solutions for professional publishers,
industrial manufacturers, and other organizations, previously
digitized and designed the Web-based championship results data
repository covering 104 cumulative years of championship games in
three NCAA Division I sports: baseball, softball, and outdoor track.edu/news/calendar

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EXPERTS AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT
* Don Cook, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Sacred Heart
University
* Jerry Lindsley, Director, Sacred Heart University Polling Institute

To speak with these experts, please contact Funda Alp at 203-396-8241 or
alpf@sacredheart .

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, HSBC - North America
today announced the appointment of Loretta Abrams to vice president -
community development and consumer advocacy.
"Our ongoing work with the NCAA is indicative of the value that
Web-based access to this historical content offers," said Jeff Catt,
ThomasTech Vice President, Sales + Marketing., with additional offices in London, UK, ThomasTech is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Thomas Publishing Company , LLC. The amendment has been met with support from
the Connecticut Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAC). Visit our website at:
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In her new position, Abrams will oversee community service and community
development responsibilities managed by HSBC Bank USA under the Community
Reinvestment Act.com .ncaa. Entire game programs are also easily
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National Poll Reports 87.3% Support Random Steroid Testing Among High School Athletes

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The company's
businesses serve nearly 60 million customers in five key areas: personal
financial services, consumer finance, commercial banking, private banking and
corporate investment banking and markets. "With our expertise in
digitizing vast stores of information from a variety of physical
formats, and developing databases to manage and use that information,
we were able to help the NCAA and college sports fans get immediate,
easy access to a rich archive of sports information . For more information, go to www.

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In addition, she will continue to direct the HSBC Center
for Consumer Advocacy, established in 2003 to manage the company's broad range
of financial education and housing programs and community outreach
initiatives.

About HSBC - North America
HSBC - North America comprises all of HSBC's U. Each year, more than
49,000 student-athletes compete in NCAA championships in Divisions I,
II and III sports.7%) random testing of High School athletes
for steroid use.3%) or
strongly opposed (6. The benefit of testing high school
athletes is that they 'll learn not to use steroids at 16 or 17 rather than
later -- and colleges in turn will inherit clean students who are less apt to
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This issue came to the forefront this week as Connecticut State
Representative and House Leader Robert Ward (R) proposed an amendment to an
existing bill that calls for a pilot program to randomly test 2,000 high
school athletes for steroid use. The sample was generated proportional to population contribution
in all fifty states. SHU is a
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About the NCAA

The NCAA is a membership-led nonprofit association of colleges and
universities committed to supporting academic and athletic
opportunities for more than 360,000 student-athletes annually at more
than 1,000 member colleges and universities. Some 3.
With over 5,700 undergraduate and graduate students, SHU has experienced two-
fold enrollment growth during the past ten years due to outstanding academic
programs in business, education, liberal arts and health sciences.

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How the Poll Was Conducted
The Sacred Heart University Polling Institute completed 1,000 interviews
with residents nationwide.
Margins for error grow as subgroups of the sample are viewed separately.

About Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University is the first Catholic university in the United
States to be led and staffed by lay people.

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Web Archive Gives Sports Fans Access to
63 Cumulative Years of Championship Results including
NCAA(R) FOOTBALL Divisions 1AA, II, and III Statistics

In its continuing work with the National Collegiate Athletic
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ThomasTech Digitizes NCAA Football and Volleyball Sports Records

The new NCAA Football and volleyball championship records archive
spans more than 125,000 pages of information such as statistical data
on teams, student-athletes, and scores , as well as biographical
information on student-athletes. For more information, visit
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Abrams joined HSBC - North America in 1973, holding a number of
operational management positions including vice president - administration,
vice president - new business and underwriting, and director - customer
service.
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software , custom-developed components, and value-added integration,
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, According to a national poll
released today by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute, a large
majority of Americans surveyed, 87 .
According to the University's Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Don
Cook, "The only way to get your arms around the problem of steroid use among
athletes is to test them. Unfortunately , they sometimes think that
steroid use is the way to get there.

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She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois
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3%) or somewhat supported (19.0%). The
steroid testing question was completed among 299 respondents nationwide with
an associated margin for error of +/-6.

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She previously served as
national director - consumer affairs. (ThomasTech) has
completed the digitization of the paper archives of NCAA Football
(Divisions 1AA, II, and III) and volleyball championship records.sacredheart .

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Users can search the archive by
year, sport, school, athletics conference, or student-athlete, and
drill down to individual events and box scores. Located in Fairfield,
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HSBC - North America Names Loretta Abrams Vice President - Community Development and Consumer Advocacy

"We look forward to seeing that record of success
positively influence the important activities being undertaken in our bank 's
community development area.hsbcusa.org

About ThomasTech

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"Under Loretta's leadership, HSBC's Center for Consumer Advocacy has
tripled consumer reach in foreclosure prevention and credit education
activities," said Lisa Sodeika, HSBC - North America's senior vice president
of corporate affairs.

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sports records are now available online in a searchable archive of
college sports statistics at http://web1.