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How Do You Rate? NIKE and SPARQ are conducting a team competition
across the Nation to find out who really has the
best athletes! Think Detroit PAL is hosting tow upcoming events. Click below for more information.
Nike Sparq Soccer Combine
May 17th
Nike Sparq Football Combine
May 18th
That’s why we have the D. Duane Hurtt Student Athlete Resource Center (SARC) at Think Detroit PAL. The Center aims to provide students with the academic support and college and career planning resources that will help them set goals outside of the athletic arena.
For more information on the D. Duane Hurtt Student Athlete Resource Center, click here or contact Laurel Whalen at (313) 833-1600 X 213
11,994 children who won’t become professional athletes better plan to get a good education, right?
Children's Summer Dreams Program
Mid-America Cup College Showcase Champions
The Detroit Diesel (U15) arrived in Peoria, Illinois on Friday evening with only 10 of the 11 players need for a full team. The team was registered in the 14th annual Mid-America Cup - College Showcase. One hundred sixty eight teams from at least seven Midwest States participated in the tournament over the weekend.
Rather than forfeit, the team played shorthanded and won every game with outstanding teamwork, guts and skill.
Game Information Hotline
For up-to-date game information, including game cancellations due to weather, please call (313) 359-6105. All games will be played as scheduled unless noted on the hotline. Information will be updated no sooner than 2 hours before the game.
Student Athlete Resource Center
According to the NCAA, less than 0.5% of all student-athletes who play in high school will go on to play professional sports. Statistically speaking, that means of the 12,000 children who participate in Think Detroit PAL programs this year, only six of them will become professional athletes. Only a slightly higher number receive full scholarships to participate in college athletics. So, the other
Starting April 28th*, when you make your check payable to Children First and send it to Think Detroit PAL by Friday, May 23rd, The Skillman Foundation will double it for Think Detroit PAL kids this summer.
Detroit Free Press
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