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Vol. 5 Summer 2015
75 South Broadway - Suite 453 White Plains, NY 10601 (914) 304-4052 byardsportscares.org 
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Coach's Corner With Danny Bernstein We submitted a new budget at our spring board meeting. I am amazed at the ability of individuals on our board to understand the inner workings of the organization through the lens of numbers. I for one always struggled with math in school. This is not to say that I disrespect dollars or the importance of maintaining competent financial records and standards. Ask Beth, my wife, I still save my change and place all the coins in rolls which I deposit in the bank! Although the sports world draws its life blood from scores and statistics, I have always been reluctant to portray our work in numeric figures. Click here to learn more from Coach Danny. 
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Readers of Westchester Family Magazine were asked to name their Family Favorites across 37 categories. Thousands of parents weighed in and Backyard Sports was honored as a Top 5 Favorite in the category of Special Needs Recreation Programs.
I think many of us can recall that day or moment when you got your first bike. Whether it was shiny red or blue, it represented a rite of passage to responsibility, growth and independence. Thankfully, through Foundation for Life, a non-profit founded by Paul and Mindee Bianco of local Barnum Financial Group, an office of Met Life in Westchester.| BYSC Helps Us Grow Up! |
 In response to our BYSC Special Needs families for Plus participants who have been with our program for many years, BYSC introduced an innovative, one of a kind Teen Sports League(TYSSL). TSSL takes our sports methodology to the next level from skill development to actual game play. What makes this model unique is that we have local high school teen peer mentors scrimmaging on the same teams with our PLUS players, providing real time instruction on offense, defense and goal scoring.Click here to learn more |
| BYSC Soccer Sizzles This Spring With New Sports League |
 With the help of a generous endowment from the Elmwood Foundation, BYSC, in partnership with eight local elementary schools and community organizations in underserved Westchester and Bronx communities launched a new soccer league(BYSSL) giving nearly 200 fourth and fifth graders a chance to play in a competitive soccer league. For some, it is their first match play experience. Boys and girls, aged 9-11 engage in weekly soccer practice at their home schools and come out on Saturday mornings to Purchase College for competitive play.Click here to learn more |
| Backyard Sports Plus Fall Schedule |
 GRADE: All Ages DAY: Sundays TIME: 11am - 11:45amDATES: 10/4, 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15 LOCATION: Suny Purchase Main Gym Click here to learn more |
| BYSC Partnership with Sound Shore Indoor Tennis Club on Solid Footing for 2nd Year |
 Friday nights can be tricky after a long work week or shuttling your own kids to sports programs. So when BYSC entered into a partnership with Sound Shore Indoor Tennis to run a comprehensive clinic for over 65 underserved kids throughout the county, Scarsdale mom Terry Gushner came to volunteer with her son Eli, but wasnt sure where this would all lead. I love tennis and wanted to give back, but had no idea how attached to the kids I would become. Instead of feeling tired from a long week, I come home after playing with these kids and feel light and energized. Terry is now in her second year teaching and mentoring the kids and tells us, it is the highlight of her week.Click here to learn more |
| Lets Hear It From The Board! Meet our Junior BYSC Board Members |
 To empower our high school peer mentor volunteers and forge new relationships and understanding with teens throughout the areas we serve, BYSC started an active Junior Board of Directors. This year, the board helped organize volunteers and sponsors for our fundraising events, wrote blogs for our website, advised on Social Media and came up with innovative ideas and outreach for our sports programming.. Click here to learn more |
| Volunteer Buzz: Ryan Pohly, Junior Philanthropist |
 Ryan Pohly, a BYSC volunteer athlete and student at the Seven Bridges Middle School in Chappaqua, recently celebrated his Bar Mitzvah and honored the occasion with a $16,000.00 contribution to BYSC. He remarked, I wanted to make a meaningful gift to an organization which brings wonderful opportunities to athletes of all playing abilities. I feel that I am not just giving money, but I am part of this gift. Ryan joined the BYS Plus volunteer staff in the fall of 2014 and has helped for three seasons of Sunday PLUS sports. Click here to learn more |
| BYSC Won Westchester Toyotas Give Back! |
 Thanks to our dedicated friends, fans, followers and junior board members who shared their hearts out BYSC generated the greatest engagement on Toyota's social media site, resulting in a grand prize donation of $1,500 to support all we do... Thank you! Click here to learn more |
| Join Our Team |
 Backyard Sports Cares is dedicated to providing high quality sports programming to young athletes with limited access to community programs and children with special needs in order to:
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