kids' sports
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Every elementary, middle and high school has an athletic program. This can take the form of organized activities and/or competitive sports teams like baseball, basketball, football, swimming, and soccer which compete with other local and regional school teams. Check your child's school programs to learn more about the athletic department's offerings. In addition to school sports, intramural leagues in your city or neighborhood can be a good introduction to sports for your child. Local clubs like the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and the YMCA also sponsor teams and tournaments.
Boys and Girls Clubs of America - designed to offer a "safe, positive place" in the community for children to enjoy recreational and competitive activities as well as educational, leadership and life skills. Sponsors all kinds of competitive sports events, inner-city baseball, girls sports, and sports and fitness training, as well as sports "challenges". Greater Miami has a number of local branches. Also offers an arts program. The YMCA is an international community health and fitness center with branches all over the US. The branch in your city may offer athletic tournaments or special swimming programs for your child. Click here to search for the branch nearest you. Miami is home to a number of local teams affiliated with two national intramural soccer leagues, the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) and the United States Youth Soccer Association (USYSA). The Kendall Hammocks AYSO offers soccer for boys and girls from 4 1/2 to 18 years of age. The fall program runs from September to December and has around 900 children participating. The program is designed so that children can enjoy and learn the game of soccer. The AYSO philosophy is "Balanced Teams: Everyone Plays". The Florida Youth Soccer Association is is a very large state-wide youth soccer organization divided into four regions and boasting over 100,000 registered youth players. FYSA is a member of both the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) and the United States Youth Soccer Association (USYSA). FYSA
address: 8 Broadway Ave., Suite 8 Kissimmee, FL 34741-5712
Links to Florida USYSA teams: http://www.usysa.org/network/youth_list.cfm?state=FL North Miami Little League Baseball - a baseball league for boys. League teams are divided into around a dozen teams from different cities and neighborhoods in Miami-Dade county. What is "Little League"? Little League Baseball is the largest organized youth sports program in the world with 2,900,000 participants on 193,000 teams in 91 countries. Each year the two best teams compete in the Little League World Series. Originally founded in 1939 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania by Carl Stotz as a baseball program for boys, Little League was designed to develop skills of character, citizenship and loyalty through competitive sports. The Little League Pledge is: "I TRUST IN GOD I LOVE MY COUNTRY AND WILL RESPECT ITS LAWS I WILL PLAY FAIR AND STRIVE TO WIN BUT WIN OR LOSE I WILL ALWAYS DO MY BEST".
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