EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

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High-quality resident-led sports specific clinics and life skills workshops are a gateway to academic achievement, better grades, improved chances of attending college, and success in the labor market. Affordable clinics are especially important for marginalized at-risk youth. These Children are higher achievers in terms of grades and dropout rates, as well as related measures of academic achievement such as homework completion, educational aspirations, and more. Sports specific training provides detailed instructions for success in a controlled environment. Marginalized children rarely receive social & emotional support, national exposure, participate in regional combines, national tournaments, NCAA sponsored clinics, and basic life skills workshops because of financial and geographic disadvantages. We find “Giving our children EXPOSURE to OPPORTUNITY” is vital towards the success of our communities.

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High school graduation rates in the Denver County, as reported by the Colorado Department of Education report are extremely low- Denver 67.6 percent of seniors graduated "on time" in the spring of 2017, as opposed to 65 percent in 2016. Denver’s achievement gap is 48% between Black students and white students in CMAS math. In CMAS Reading and writing it is 44% and SAT reading and writing it is 47%. Disturbingly students in grades 7th - 12th dropped out of school and 77% of these dropouts failed one or more semester courses in the 9th-grade students who attend institutions of higher education obtain a wide range of personal, financial, and other lifelong benefits; likewise, taxpayers and society as a whole derive a multitude of direct and indirect benefits when citizens have access to post-secondary education.

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Students who attend institutions of higher education obtain a wide range of personal, financial, and other lifelong benefits; likewise, taxpayers and society as a whole derive a multitude of direct and indirect benefits when citizens have access to postsecondary education. Accordingly, uneven rates of participation in higher education across different segments of U.S. society should be a matter of urgent interest not only to the individuals directly affected, but also as a matter of public policy at the federal, state, and local levels. The income gap between high school graduates and college graduates has increased significantly over time. The earnings benefit to the average college graduate is high enough for graduates to recoup both the cost of full tuition and fees and earnings forgone during the college years in a relatively short period of time.

Any college experience produces a measurable benefit when compared with no post-secondary education, but the benefits of completing a bachelor’s degree or higher is significantly greater.

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Participants in organized sports are more likely to attend college and to land better jobs with more responsibility and higher pay.