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Empowering Children’s Lives by Combining Sports & Education

Program Summary

The Skyhook Foundation believes that there are common attributes underlying academic and athletic excellence. These common values include discipline, leadership, teamwork, sportsmanship and conflict resolution. The Skyhook Foundation’s B.E.S.T. (Building Education and Sports Together) program empowers children’s lives by harnessing these common attributes into a program that instills belief and confidence in our members.

The Skyhook BEST program combines the highly successful College Bound© program of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Los Angeles Harbor with an elite all-star traveling basketball program for middle and high school youth.  By integrating the disciplines stressed on court and the College Bound classroom, the Skyhook Foundation engages at-risk and predominantly children of color with comprehensive college access support they do not receive in the public school system and which they cannot afford to purchase privately.

The basketball coaches and the College Bound case managers work together to develop a uniform plan to drive success on and off the court. The coaches and academic mentors meet regularly to review the progress of the BEST program members. Academic case mangers provide education counseling and mentoring guidance throughout the participants’ 6th – 12th grade years. Tutors provide daily academic support in all subject areas six days per week. Weekly workshops include S.A.T. preparation, essay writing, researching colleges, etc. Direct assistance for college acceptance and funding applications are engaged online in a 1-on-1 setting with each participant.

On court coaches work side by side with the academic mentors ensure that leadership and discipline gained on the court is applied off the court and vice versa. Academics and athletics are integrated so that the common values that produce excellence in one area can be brought to bear in the other.  BEST is only available to those “scholar athletes” who commit to the hard work required to achieve success in the classroom and on the court.

Tournaments will be hosted year-round and will promote the common values behind academic and athletic success. The Skyhook Foundation will save lives and every life saved will become an example and mentor for those that follow.

Click the donate button below to receive your autographed copy of On the Shoulders of Giants and audio CD for a donation of $75.00 to the foundation.