Team-Up for Youth Facts and Press

Press

• My Soccer Coach Changed My Life
  San Francisco Chronicle, June 22, 2009
  Zulma Munoz, Chair of Team-Up's Youth Advisory Committee wrote into the San Francisco Chronicle to encourage more attention is paid to coaching and coaches who give.
• 15 Minutes With John Levin
  Stanford Educator, Spring 2009
  Team-Up for Youth board member explains why he's passionate about our work in the current newletter from the Stanford School of Education.
• Team-Up for Youth: Sports as a Youth Development Strategy
  Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation Newsletter, August 2008
  Read about Team-Up for Youth's Phillips Fellows, inspiring Coaching Corps coaches and community leaders.
• Chancellor's Community Partnership Fund grants awarded
  The Berkeleyan, August 2008
  Read about the grant Team-Up for Youth's Coaching Corps received for its programs in Berkeley
• Sports Illustrated Letter to the Editor from Dave Stewart
  Sports Illustrated, July 2008
  Team-Up Trustee, former A's pitcher and MVP Dave Stewart wrote this letter addressing the previous issue's feature story "How Dreams Die," which described how sports may no longer keep at-risk youth out of harm's way. The article focused on Bay Area youth in particular. Dave, who grew up in Oakland's Elmhurst neighborhood, offers readers a more positive view of how sports help kids thrive.
• A Love of Hoops Drives Passion to Help Others
  San Francisco Chronicle, September 2007
  Read about Coaching Corps Coach Brittany Murlas, who won the Jefferson Award for her outstanding work with Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program wheelchair basketball players.
• Leveling the Playing Field
  San Francisco Chronicle, May 2007
  Dave Stewart and Harris Barton, former A's and 49ers players and Team-Up for Youth Trustees, describe the importance of helping girls from low-income neighborhoods get access to quality sports programs that improve their prospects in school and in life.

News Releases

• Lacrosse for LIFE and TOUCH Volleyball Club Win Second-Annual Rosenberg Awards for Excellence in Youth Service November 2009
• Girls Scored at AT&T Park:  Team-Up for Youth and BAWSI Celebrate Girls Sports Day with the SF Giants  May, 2009
• Top Academic, Health, Philanthropy & Youth Development Experts Examine the Ways Sports-Based Youth Development Programs Support Academic Success November, 2008
• Youth Programs in Mission District & Visitacion Valley
  Win First-Ever Rosenberg Awards for Excellence in Youth Service November, 2008
  

Facts

• Promising Practice in Afterschool The AED Center for Youth Development and Afterschool.org identified Coaching Corps as a promising practice to promote school connectedness afterschool
• Team-Up for Youth Fact Sheet Includes information about Team-Up for Youth's mission, partners, work and achievements.
• Study Confirms Team-Up for Youth's Impact External evaluation by Philliber Research Associates shows Team-Up for Youth's leadership in the after-school sports field
• Fact Sheet: Youth Sports Participation and Educational Outcomes Learn about the link between youth sports and positive academic outcomes.
• Fact Sheet: Girls Sports Participation Learn about the need for and rewards of  girls sports participation.
• Fact Sheet: Youth Sports Participation and Health Learn about how sports benefit kids' health.
• Report: Learning to Play and Playing to Learn: Organized Sports and Educational Outcomes. Get the full report about the link between youth sports participation and academic outcomes.