Sports offer a fun, familiar, and interactive environment for developing character and life skills. Incorporating sports into our program allows us to connect with kids in a relatable way, utilize an informal setting, and communicate in a language they understand.

Our program uses multiple sports for different reasons. First, playing multiple sports exposes children to different movements, builds mental resiliency, and shows them that they are capable of gaining skills that may have seemed out of reach at first.

The second reason is using various youth sports provides an opportunity to develop different skills through different experiences.

As of right now, we focus on one sport per season. For example, soccer is played in the fall, basketball in the winter, and flag football or baseball in the spring. We structure each sport to coincide with high school athletes’ off-season to allow more flexibility in the coach’s schedule.

Our coaches are high school athletes who play the sport offered during the season. Players will learn the techniques and proper form of the sport, but coaches don’t solely focus on mastering the sport’s skill. The focus of every season is to develop inner skills, sportsmanship, teamwork, and leadership skills.

Anyone in grades K-12! It doesn’t matter if your child plays travel, rec, or no sports at all—our youth sports program is designed for everyone. Competitive players will benefit from building mental resilience, sportsmanship, and teamwork, which will help them become better athletes.

Our program offers kids a chance to stay physically active and build mental skills in a fun, non-competitive environment, providing a perfect opportunity for kids who quit or never played sports.

Most think that character automatically transfers to non-sport activities, but these connections require practice, reflection, and discussion of how they apply outside sports. Trying to use practice times to teach both the skill of the sport and build life skills beyond the field would require hours of practice.

With the decline in youth mental health and dangers unknown to earlier generations, having a separate program is critical. To give teams something to work towards, weekend games are replaced with a community service project at the end of each season.

In the future, we may collaborate with other youth leagues to organize a game that raises funds for a charity or community organization associated with our service project that season.