Education Through Athletics is helping student-athletes get a college scholarship. Hoop Dreams Athletics is the longest running sports team under the Education Through Athletics program. In Time of Need Incorporated does not view sports as a form of recreation. This organization views sports as a gateway to a FREE college education. Every young lady in the pictures all participated in our sports program, and they are just a few out of the hundreds of student-athletes that have participated in our Sports program called “Education Through Athletics”.
To date this program has raised 343 Million Dollars in full scholarships for our participants. This means that these student athletes are going to college 100 percent FREE. We are proud of the accomplishments of our participants in the Education Through Athletics Program. It cost a lot of money and hundreds of hours to make this happen, but we have shown year after year that it is absolutely can be done. We are currently looking to expand our sports program. We have done a lot of work, but there is so much more work that needs to be done.
So how do we make it happen?
It’s an expensive journey, but being able to ensure that these children as not labeled as STATISTICS makes it worth every penny. We spend thousands of dollars a year on gym rentals, so that the kids can train/practice. We would love to one day open our very own sports and education youth center.
We mentor every athlete, and not just on basketball; we mentor them on life. This program travels the country competing in AAU tournaments, to ensure that our participants in the program have exposure to college coaches. These tournaments are critical to our student-athletes participating because there is no other time that you will 2000 college coaches in 1 building recruiting athletes to play for their college program. This program has saved hundreds of lives over the year, and we are fighting to save hundreds more.