Dear, Business Owners and Sports Fans,
It is my pleasure to introduce you to the 2016 Los Angeles Dream Team travel basketball club . Our program consists of 100% South Los Angeles bright young men who live in poverty, gang infested communities, and/or have no male role models in their lives. Our program consist of a volunteer coaching staff to our roster of 30 student-athletes ranging from 11-17 years old. These future leaders are excited to represent their hometown in basketball tournaments all over the country this spring and summer, culminating with our season-ending Adidas Uprising Tournament played in Las Vegas, NV, July 20 – 24, 2016.
First and foremost, our coaching staff is focused on developing the skills and knowledge of our players
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For businesses, we have sponsorship levels defined below. For those families, individuals, and businesses wishing to sponsor or donate to the team, please follow these steps:
1. Write a check made payable to “Lead Through Athletics”
2. In the memo field of the check, note “LA Dream Team”.
3. Please provide us with your contact information (name, business name, mailing address & phone number) so that our team may send you a thank you letter and your tax receipt.
4. Please mail your check & contact information using the enclosed return envelope, or to:
Lead Through Athletics
Attn: LA Dream Team
6944 La Tijera Blvd
Westchester, CA 90045
Tax Information
Our LA Dream Team basketball club operates under the competitive branch of the Lead Through Athletics Incorporated. Lead Through Athletics Incorporated is a 501(c)(3) California non-profit corporation. Our Tax ID is: 47-3053227.
Sponsorship Levels
Sponsors have an opportunity for their business name/logo to be featured on our team website and communications, plus travel with us across 7 tournaments in California, and the Adidas Uprising tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada. All donors/sponsors will be recognized on our team website (www.leadthroughathletics.org). For donors of $250 or more, Coach Chris Owor will contact you to see how we can additionally represent your business for such a generous donation (i.e. logo on team shirt, logo on a team banner,
6. The point of contact for the memo will be you with your phone number
I have been selected to organize an event by a local sorority to put on three on three basketball tournament in which all proceeds will go towards a child in the Make A Wish Foundation. The tournmanent has only been limited to college students, we would like invite other community members to join in on the tournament. The tournament will take place in the middle of the spring semester.
expenses. It takes a lot of fundraising to help and this event was one of the hundreds held
These fundraisers are done in several ways the very first means of donation came from a telethon conducting in 1983 by founders Marie Osmond, John Schneider, Mick Shannon, and Joe Lake. After the success of the telethon with nearly 4.8 million dollars raised, many large corporations joined in the efforts to provide resources for sick and injured children. Many high-name corporations such as Marriott International, Walmart, Sam’s Club, Cosco, Dairy Queen and Ace Hardware are leading participants in donations. These donations are done in the form of tournaments, relays, telethons, and various other marathons. One of the most well-known forms of donations is done though the CMN paper balloon sales.
With through the roof expectations and tough love that Summitt once experienced from her father that she later relayed to her girls, one eight national championships. A team a school, that had no women’s basketball uniforms, lacked a locker room, and the attention from outsiders was nothing but a dream at the time, and turned them into a team and gave them a reputation that any rational person would deeply respect. Her book is full of thrilling memories, stories, and good times, illustrations that is hard for Summitt to rekindle now they just are as clear as they once were.
To understand the phenomenal standard at which the Dream Team performed at, it is necessary to look at the statistics that they recorded. During the 1992 Olympics, the American basketball team averaged 117 ¼ points per game (Cottrell 1). This is remarkable, and partly due to the fact that this was the first Olympic games where professional basketball players were allowed to compete. Before this year, numbers like this were unprecedented in the games. Along with putting up with insane numbers, they not only held their opponents to 73 ½ points a game, but beat their competitors by an average of 44 points (“NBA” 1). These are just a few examples of the impact the Dream Team made on international basketball that year. It is easy to understand why the team has such a famous connotation to the name. The numbers that the American basketball team put up in Barcelona that summer will forever go down in history.
As I have asserted, coaching is far more than winning or losing. A coach is an essential cog in shaping qualities such as sportsmanship, competitiveness, self discipline, and work ethic. A quality coach can build a player up while a bad coach can tear them down. My goal as a coach was to always leave the player striving to be the best they could be. A good coach
One of these causes, the Miracle League of the South Hills is particularly close to my heart. A friend of my mother has a child who is severely autistic, and all my life my family and I have volunteered for many organizations to help special needs children, of all of these Miracle League has left the greatest impression on me. Ghandi once said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others,” and that is exactly what has happened to me during my long term association with the Miracle League. I truly believe my association with this organization has helped me to become a better person, more kind, caring, outgoing, and energetic. Miracle League was founded on the belief that, “Every child deserves a chance to play baseball.” Miracle League operates specially designed fields on which they bring the game of baseball to children who may have never had the opportunity to play on a real field. I volunteer with the Miracle League Buddy program. The Buddy Program pairs volunteers with a Miracle League player to help the player The buddy is there to protect the player from balls, assist the player in batting and running the bases, and to be a friend on and off the field. I began volunteering as a buddy in 2012, and in 2014 I became a Buddy Organizer for my team, the Tigers. As Buddy Organizer I do exactly what it sounds like, I am in charge of pairing up players with a
Samantha Ureno Professor Zia English 99 22 January 2016 The Science Behind Sports Authority “Nothing in a grocery store is where it is by accident. Every item on a shelf has been planned” (Paco Underhill). In the articles, “The Science of Shopping” by Malcolm Gladwell and “How Target Knows What You Want Before You Do” by Charles Duhigg, these authors exemplify effective marketing strategies which were composed by Paco Underhill and Andrew Pole. Underhill is an environmental psychologist; additionally he employs the basic idea that one’s surroundings influences ones behavior and invented structuring man-made environments to make them conducive to retail purposes.
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In the meantime, the team’s coach put more emphasis on improvements as opposed to scoring goals. They strive for friendship and closer relationships.
A proper coaching philosophy contains principles which improve character development, teach step by step tactical and technical skills, form proper progressive physical training regimens, and carefully utilize team management to handle and control problems with administrative issues. A coach with a sound philosophy should mold a team with strong cohesion, and he should treat players not only as teammates, but as family and friends who are encouraged to develop communication and lifelong learning of skills through positive support and role modeling from the coach (Mergelsberg, 14-15). The philosophy should also contain written documents of implemented strategies and techniques, so that the coach will know what to improve upon season by season
As a native of Lancaster, I feel an obligation to act and do something that will benefit my community. I am well aware of the many perils that youth face, and these obstacles can be extremely difficult to overcome without positive figures to aid and provide guidance. There is a great need for an intensive mentoring program within the community to positively influence the lives of youth. For The Land of Dreams, I have proposed to host a community basketball tournament to raise funds to implement a mentoring program to assist in the personal growth and career development of youth in Lancaster County and surrounding areas. The program will form partnerships with local school districts and the juvenile court system. This event will aid Lancaster County by providing additional discretionary resources that will be used to fund such activities as tutoring programs, leadership courses, and college tours.
“We spent time designing the mailing and printing it. And then we all sat around stuffing envelopes and calling companies to get the right contact person to mail it out to,” he says.
Know your role and the team’s goals. Be aware of your strengths and weaknesses and what you can contribute to the team.