Pleasant Grove Soccer & Sports camps

We are having a two-hour skills session for GIRLS ONLY, grades 5-7, on Thursday at Samuell High School. (Noon until 2 pm.) We have a few spots left! The session is free. ... Reply here if you have interest in having your girl attend!

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Remember, it's North Texas Giving Day.
Our nonprofit pushes back hard against youth soccer's pay-to-play model, which shuts out WAY too many families in lower income areas
(See my other post if you want more info; if I link to it here, fewer of you will see it 🫤)

History made last night as women's professional club soccer debuted here. Congrats to Dallas Trinity FC and good luck in your journey!
A good crowd came out to the historic Cotton Bowl see Trinity and the (world class!) FC Barcelona women's team. (And our nonprofit Pleasant Grove Soccer & Sports camps provided some support for the girls at the School for the Talented and Gifted in Pleasant Grove

One year ago today we partnered with DPD's Unidos for this free soccer clinic in Pleasant Grove. (118 kiddos, but it was HOT 🥵) Reaching out today to our schools to get things going for fall.

Thanks to KERA for the story! (I guess they had an audio version that they used for segments on 90.1 radio, but I didn't hear that one)

Dallas soccer team charity gives $20,000 to 4 North Texas nonprofits The organizations will use the $5,000 grants to promote health, education and wellness in their communities.

Congratulations to our 2024 Community Action Grant Recipients!

Big thanks to FC Dallas & NUU Mobile USA for naming us among their 2024 Community Action Grant recipients.
Beyond grateful for helping us make underserved Pleasant Grove a little better place for young soccer players🙏

The FC Dallas Foundation and NUU Announce 2024 Community Action Grantees | FC Dallas $130,000 awarded to date

A few photos from last week's camp. We had 102 kiddos for the 5 days of soccer ... warm-ups, passing and shooting instruction, goalkeeper sessions, movement training a final-day cookout and, of course, all those scrimmage games they love!

Staff for this week's nonprofit camp. (Minus a couple coaches not there Monday.) Coaches + camp "moms" + student assistants from WW Samuell HS.
Not shown: an awesome group of about 90 good kids from Pleasant Grove!

Sign-ups are strong for next week's soccer camp - but we still have a few spots open. Boys and girls, ages 9-14. (June 3-7)

Our low-cost summer soccer camp is set: June 3-7 at WW Samuell High School.
- For ages 9-14 (boys and girls)
- 8:30 am - 11:30 am daily
- Skills training, speed & agility work, games and a camp t-shirt.
- Sign up here!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8VthLOyXuzWm_I4P56l6HU2qRnMgifPO0URPrk-LUvAMm3w/viewform

When two of your crossfit pals randomly show up for a workout wearing your nonprofit shirt 🙂💓
(They are also on the coaching rotation for Pleasant Grove Soccer & Sports camps. And they are both absolutely awesome!)

A few pictures from last week's free clinic inside the historic Cotton Bowl, for youth soccer players from underserved areas of Dallas. We had 167 kids! ... BIG thanks to the Dallas Police UNIDOS (Latino Community Outreach) team. They handled "outside" the field, while our Pleasant Grove Soccer & Sports camps ran the soccer.

Sharing from the awesome Dallas Police UNIDOS team ...
(I'll post more pics from Saturday's soccer clinic inside the Cotton Bowl here soon.)

Load-in day at the Cotton Bowl (for tomorrow's free soccer clinic). Dallas Police inflated more than 200 soccer balls! (Then it turned into a DPD kick-around!)
DPD's Denise Moreno and her UNIDOS group are awesome to work with.

Have you signed up?
Spots are limited. This is open all over Dallas, but I want to make sure our kids in Pleasant Grove get in! Especially since Pleasant Grove Soccer & Sports is running the event (a FREE soccer clinic), along with the great people with Dallas Police's UNIDOS group.

We held a girls only (free!) Spring Break mini-camp today. We weren't sure what to expect in participation, but we know there is tremendous power in getting started.
So we started. And it was fantastic! There is a blog entry on the website if you wanna read more:

Girls soccer! The power of getting started — Pleasant Grove Soccer & Sports Of all the great things about working with the amazing kids in Pleasant Grove, our nonprofit has missed one element so far. It has always bothered me – and I pledged to make some progress toward a correction this year. We haven’t done a good job of getting girls into our camps and clinics. If we...

Spread the word through Pleasant Grove!
We are partnering with Dallas Police UNIDOS (Latino Community Outreach unit) for this one-day clinic inside ... the Cotton Bowl!!! Where Leo Messi played just two months ago. Where World Cup matches have been played! Former home of FC Dallas. Space will be limited ... so get 'em to sign up! (Soccer players age 10-16)