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Topic: Advocacy - August 04 2026
Youth Sports Programs Deserve More Credit

For a long time, people have believed that youth sports are only recreational, but it doesn’t have to be that way. VIS Mentor Maya Neal discusses how in many communities, youth sports are life-changing and provide socially transferable skills, especially for the growth of aspiring women athletes.

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In elementary school, I remember getting picked up and watching my friends line up for their weekly soccer practices, in yellow-orange jerseys, black shorts, and cleats. Seeing my friends get excited about their games meant seeing growth in sports accessibility, even if I didn’t know it at the time. DC SCORES made this possible through its after-school program, which has provided opportunities to schools lacking extracurricular programming since 1994. What started with a mission to ...
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