24 May 2009
ON THE BEACH IN SAN DIEGO
The students from Surf City Squash, an urban youth program in San Diego, celebrated World Squash Day in a unique and unusual fashion.
Rather than playing or watching the sport, the students spread the word about the sport and the effort to become an Olympic Sport by promoting the sport at San Diego’s most renowned venue—the beach.
The students designed a giant squash racquet, Olympic rings, and a ball in the sand on the beach providing the many beachgoers an opportunity to learn about the sport and the effort to make it an Olympic sport.
The students who participate in the Surf City Squash program come from 10 countries and represent the future of squash in the United States. While only playing the sport for less than two years, the girl’s team was the champion of the Urban Squash Team Tournament, under 15 division.
Surf City Squash is an urban youth enrichment program that involves academic, community service, and squash. The students spend 30 hours per month in the program which is held at the San Diego Squash facility. They meet three times per week and spend half of their time on academic enrichment and the remainder on squash.
On weekends, they participate in community service projects, play in squash tournaments, or practice their squash. Surf City Squash is a non-profit organization that inspires underserved youth to succeed with an aim to encourage collaboration and physical activity, teach students to make wise choices, develop a life-long ethic of service, unite a diverse population of students, and affirm each student’s uniqueness to foster self-respect, self-confidence, and leadership.
Surf City Squash hopes to instill the skills necessary for it participants to become future leaders and productive, contributing members of the community.
Renato Paiva, SCS Executive Director
www.surfcitysquash.org
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