Beyond Soccer Inc

Summer enrichment: our off-season focus tackles sports access and equity gaps during kids' out-of-school time. It meant running our 12th annual sports & wellness camp, a high school training week, plus evening summer nights play and enrichment activities like cooking courses. In addition to supporting our signature sports camps and clinics that benefited 400+ lawrence youth and teens, 100% of those activities were led by current or former beyond soccer participants as summer coach mentors who benefited from cpr training, coach training, and office administration support and experience.

Off the field programs - youth leadership and employment: beyond soccer engages and trains 50+ older participants and program alumni as coach mentors and referees, providing them with valuable employment experiences in supported paid positions with coaches training, cpr courses, and office/administrative experiences. Further, volunteer positions were provided to middle and high school youth on our teams as jr. Coach mentors to gain experiences who will eventually become coach mentors.academic tutoring and college readiness support: beyond soccer, with its academic lab with cubicles, computers, and printers, engaged local college volunteers who provided tutoring and college readiness support, helping students to succeed not only on the field but in the classroom as well. During school year 2024, 44 elementary, middle, and high school youth benefited from one-on-one tutoring with merrimack college student volunteers and former beyond soccer players who tutored during their college breaks. One hundred percent of parents reported a "major" change in their child's work ethic related to school work.health and wellness: utilizing beyond soccer's teaching kitchen, participants were exposed to hands-on demonstrations and regular conversations focused on proper pre- and post-game nutrition, the timing of meals, and adequate hydration. Beyond soccer also utilized its multipurpose space to offer regular workouts focused on strength, endurance, speed, and teambuilding. Beyond soccer partnered with boston children's hospital and administered pacer testing to track players' healthy fitness zones, as well as the impact of its program on each player's health.

In-school programs: beyond soccer partnered with the lawrence public school system and brought soccer enrichment programs to select middle schools. It is part of its effort to ensure young people with challenges getting to after-school programs still benefited from quality soccer instruction.