Field Hockey:
Jen White, a two-time All-American Field Hockey student-athlete from Northeastern University, is coordinating a series of field hockey demonstrations and clinics for more than 100 middle school girls in Boston's inner-city neighborhoods. These schools will form the first ever Boston Youth Field Hockey League in the Spring of 2000.

"There is a critical need for activities for Boston's urban girls," said White. "It is so rewarding to see the looks on kids faces when we show up each week."

READ MORE about the Inner City Field Program in the NEWS Section

Double Dutch:
Urban Youth Sports sits on the Board of the Red Auerbach Foundation and officiated programs involving 55 students representing schools and more than 150 from community centers. It also helped introduce three additional Boston schools to the sport of Double Dutch and promoted the Burke High School (Dorchester) "Burke Bouncers" Double Dutch team.

Hockey:
Urban Youth Sports provided support to the Score program with Sport in Society's Kevin Matthews enabling more than 80 minority youth to become involved in hockey.

Soccer:
Urban Youth Sports provided continuous support towards establishing two new soccer programs in Boston: New England Scores (serving 180 elementary girls and boys) and City Kicks (serving 150 middle school girls.)

Softball & Baseball:
Urban Youth Sports's Co-Director Art Taylor has been a Board member of the Boston Red Sox RBI baseball and softball program serving 1,400 children. He and several staff from Sport in Society and students from the Harvard Medical School coached summer softball and conducted a life skills program for girls ages 12-15.

Lacrosse:
Urban Youth Sports supported the evolution of an existing lacrosse team and the development of a new team from Roxbury serving mainly minority youth. This is the first diverse youth lacrosse league to be established in Boston.

Cycling:
The Urban Youth Sports Boston Youth Cycling Initiative worked with Bikes Not Bombs and Harvard Medical School to run a city-wide summer program serving 50 young people from Boston, which expanded into a school based program at the New Mission High School serving an additional 30 students.

Tennis:
As an outgrowth of the Boston Youth Sports Congress, a program called Tenacity was created which provided tennis clinics to more than 1000 Boston Public School students during the summer of 1999.

Volleyball:
Urban Youth Sports helped form a successful volleyball league for small public and charter schools.

Try-a-Sport Day:
Urban Youth Sports assisted the Massachusetts Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and the Reggie Lewis Track and Activity Center to introduce 300 fourth grade students to track and field, tennis, volleyball, and Double Dutch.

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