SCHOOLS
Sports provides healthy opportunities to learn life skills, take healthy risks, and achieve goals. Combining sports in education can further help students in developing a self-motivating spirit to do things on their own: building the platform for students to have the skill that they need for success inside and outside of the classroom. Our programs help support the overall experience for students at Title 1 schools in Guilford and Forsyth County. In the 2024-2025 school year we served 36 Title 1 schools with over $250,000 of FREE programming and 4,385 pieces of equipment.
Elementary Schools
Our goal on the elementary school level is to introduce a variety of sports to encourage kids to find their passion and participate in being active. We do this through exposure to a variety of sports through our 6-week recess clinics, providing equipment for recess and improving spaces to play, as well as supporting school initiatives and activities through field trips and college campus visits.
Middle Schools
For many middle schoolers this is the first opportunity to play a team sport. Our goal on the middle school level is to provide support both for the players and coaches to make this space more accessible and a place for flourishing in our schools. We do this by offering pre-tryout clinics where students can try out now sports, providing the necessary equipment for athletes and coaching resources for our coaches, connecting volunteers to game day experiences as well as creating enrichment opportunities and sports clubs for students to find success on this school level as they prepare for the next.
Beyond Recess Program
Beyond Recess is a specialty program designed to partner with our schools to help heal and transform the system of recess from the inside out on the elementary level. Our goal is to use the platform of play to support intentional opportunities for students to gain the skills needed to flourish inside and outside of the classroom. We do this by partnering with our teachers and staff to design a Beyond Recess plan that best meets the needs of their school in things like equipment and resources for play spaces, recess game training where students learn to own their own play, and Recess Teams that provide not only exposure to sports but the opportunity to continue growing important life skills.
Great Game Program
The spirit of this program is centered around its name: The Great Game. At the end of competition teams will walk through and shake hands with their opponents, saying, “great game.” This is a space for middle schoolers to come together in the name of sport. During the intervention time they will get to explore sports they may play in high school (flag football, lacrosse, golf) or recreational club sports (pickleball, rugby ultimate frisbee). The program will also partner with the Kellin Foundation, UNCG, 500 Fist Bumps and Active Girls, Healthy Girls to encourage kids to be brave, practice sportsmanship and comradery in school. We will be working with Southern, Hairston and Jackson.