Spring is here!

The Spring season at America SCORES LA has officially begun. Last week was our first full week of programming at all four of our schools--Palms Elementary, Braddock Drive Elementary, Charnock Rd. Elementary and Palms Middle-- and it was great to see the students return excited and energetic about the program. Students at Braddock and Palms Elementary were especially anxious after not having programming during the winter months. Days that our staff would visit the campus were filled with youthful inquiries as to if the program had started yet and if not, when it was going to and when the first game day was scheduled for?

Since we have started it seems as if the kids have been able to run faster and longer than ever before. Practices at all the schools have gone well as coaches get re-acquainted with their teams and begin implementing the spring curriculum of service learning. The students at Charnock Rd. have already held a trash day where they scrubbed the water fountains and cleaned up the play yard (Photo above of Charnock girls) . Our other schools have also started planning their days of service and began learning about how they can make their community a better and cleaner place.

Last Friday, in addition to being the first official day of Spring, was also our first game day. After having a short week of programming the week prior, all the teams were geared up to play and let out almost two weeks of practice and excitement. Playing through wind gusts and uncharacteristically cold weather (a brisk 53 F), the kids gave it their all in some high intensity games that went down to the wire. In the end, everyone had a great time and left looking forward to the week to come.

Finally, Palms Middle is in the midst of week long team tournament. Yesterday kicked off the event featuring the first two games of a three game round robin. The teams will finish their league games and play the semi-final round tomorrow. The Championship and Third Place games will be held on Friday.

We are happy to say that our Spring season has gotten off to a great start! We are excited to have so many great kids participating and we all look forward to the wonderful events to come in the future. We hope you will check back to this blog to hear more as our year progresses.