As the cornerstone of Chino American Little League for over 12 years dedicating her time, energy and heart to the service of the community, Courtney Garcia was awarded the Sports Legends Youth Volunteer Award. Mrs. Garcia will serve as the grand marshal for the Chino Youth Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 13 at the Civic Center.
The award, given to her during Tuesday’s Chino City Council meeting, honors volunteers who have dedicated at least five years of service to youth sports and have shown leadership, teaching abilities and sportsmanship.
Mrs. Garcia has served as president, secretary, treasurer and mentor. She has also trained presidents and board members, ensuring that each new generation of leadership is equipped with the tools and knowledge to succeed.
She sponsors a child every year to cover their registration fees, ensuring that financial hardship never stands in the way of a child’s opportunity to play.
“I began volunteering when my son Joshua was 41/2 years old, but even though now he is 17 years old and out of the league, I continue to volunteer because it is a passion of mine,” she said. Mrs. Garcia accepted the award with Joshua and her husband by her side.
Youth Football: Texas Mambas go undefeated in inaugural season
Published 11:00 am Saturday, December 6, 2025
The Texas Mambas 8-and-under youth football team wrapped up their inaugural season by going undefeated.
The Mambas, based out of Carthage, participated in the Louisiana Youth Sport League and went a perfect 7-0 in the regular season, won the conference championship and two playoff games.
“These kids are very intelligent,” Mambas Coach Jose Lopez said. “We played like high school ball. We coached them from the sideline and didn’t even have to touch the field or nothing. We send the play and give them signals and everybody was asking ‘Where did you get this team from?’”
The Mambas won regional championship in Tyler defeating the No. 1 seed out of Dallas 40-6 and beat the Forth Worth Longhorns in the championship 20-6.
The Mambas were invited to Florida to compete in the national tournament but with the team being in its inaugural season, the organizers simply weren’t prepared and didn’t have the time to fundraise.
“We probably could’ve done well in nationals,” Lopez said. “But that’s a pretty good little ride for a first-year team. Getting funds together was kind of hard at the last minute.”
There were a total of 22 kids on the roster including a couple of eight-year-olds with the majority being seven-year-olds with once six-year-old.
“We had 22 kids and eight kids played football before,” Lopez said. “Once we decided to do the team we had to start from the bottom. We started working out some kids in March and seeing what kind of fundamentals they needed.”
Lopez said his son competed in Carthage youth football but was looking branch out and see what him and a few of his teammates compete at a higher level.
The Texas Mambas coaching staff included Tre Leary, Kendrick Henderson, Kedrick Henderson, the team manger was Shakayla Lopez, the team mom’s were Tamara Mitchell and Crystal Henderson Lilly Sanders was the trainer.
Jamar West is the director of the Louisiana Youth Sport League.
Lopez said the Texas Mambas will run it back once again in 2026 and if the opportunity comes up once again to compete in nationals, that the team will do all that they can to compete in it next season.
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Sports Extra is back for the winter sports season. Friday’s Sports Extra rung in the new season with boys basketball highlights, girls basketball highlights, and highlights from the girls wrestling invitational at Lake City.
Girls basketball highlights from the following games:
Northfield vs. Mayo
PEM vs. Dover-Eyota
St. Charles vs. Lewiston-Altura
Kingsland vs. Grand Meadow
Alden-Conger/Glenville-Emmons vs. LeRoy Ostrander
Plus, scores from around the area.
Click here to watch boys basketball highlights, with coverage from: Austin vs. John Marshall, Pine Island vs. Zumbrota-Mazeppa, Chatfield vs. Wabasha-Kellogg and Lanesboro vs. Southland.
Click here to watch highlights from Friday’s girls wrestling invitational in Lake City. Plus, our Play of the Week.
This time of year, it’s easy to let the big online retailers do our Christmas shopping for us. A couple clicks, a brown box shows up, and that’s that.
But when you walk into a local shop in La Crosse, something different happens. The owner asks about your kids. A clerk remembers what you bought last year. The baker throws in an extra cookie because they know your usual order.
Buying local is a Christmas gift twice. Once to the person who opens it, and once to the family whose lights stay on because you chose their store.
Yeah, it might cost a little more than the rock-bottom online deal. But those extra dollars come back as youth sports sponsorships, community festivals, and another year of your favorite storefronts still glowing on a dark winter afternoon.
When we shop local, we’re really saying ‘Merry Christmas’ to our whole community.
LAKE PLACID — Former North Country Assemblyman Billy Jones and a current Brooklyn Assemblyman are calling for the formation of an exploratory committee to look into the potential of bringing the Winter Olympics back to New York, splitting the events between Lake Placid and New York City.
Three years ago, Jones drafted legislation, co-sponsored by fellow downstate Democratic Assemblyman Robert Carroll, to create such a group, which passed the Assembly, but never went to a vote in the Senate.
Jones retired from the Assembly in September to take a job at Clinton Community College. He’s also a member of the board of trustees for the Olympic Regional Development Authority, which manages the local Olympic venues.
He and Carroll wrote an op-ed titled “Bring the Winter Olympics to NYC & Lake Placid,” which was published in the New York Daily News on Thursday.
“This isn’t a commitment to host the Games, but a chance to decide together whether the dream is right,” the op-ed states.
Carroll said the committee would essentially be “kicking the tires” on the possibility.
Jones said they’ve talked about the potential for a New York City-Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games occasionally over the years. The Olympics have grown “exponentially” since Lake Placid last played host in 1980, Jones said, so to make it feasible again, he said the town of a little more than 2,000 year-round residents would have to partner with a major city.
“Lake Placid would never be able to host anything alone,” ORDA Communications Director Darcy Norfolk Rowe said.
The 1980 Games sold 550,000 tickets, and Lake Placid was capped at 51,000 visitors in the village each day.
The last Winter Olympics in 2022 in Beijing were affected by the coronavirus pandemic and only had around 100,000 spectators. Before that, the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang sold around 1 million tickets. The Winter Olympics coming in February in Milan-Cortina are projected to bring 2 million attendees.
Lake Placid was selected by the International Olympic Committee as the “Plan B” option for the 2026 sliding sports last year in the case that the Cortina Sliding Center in Italy was not built in time for competition. The Cortina track ended up on pace to meet the deadline, and the Plan B option was dropped this spring.
Norfolk Rowe said that the bid gave people “a taste” of what it might be like to host a portion of the Olympics.
Jones and Carroll also said the upcoming games show that a big city (Milan) and a small, alpine ski town (Cortina), around a five-hour drive away from each other, can co-host a Winter Olympics.
“By thoughtfully dividing events between NYC and Lake Placid, we can minimize disruption, maximize efficiency and set a new standard for responsible Olympic planning,” the op-ed states.
Jones also said recent past Olympics have had venues built from scratch at enormous cost, which are then abandoned after the games end.
The International Olympic Committee does not want people building venues anymore, Norfolk Rowe said.
“Past Games have been plagued by ballooning budgets, underused facilities and disruptions to local communities,” the op-ed states.
Lake Placid has established venues at Mount Van Hoevenberg, the Olympic Ski Jumping Complex and Whiteface Mountain. The state has put tens to hundreds of millions of dollars a year into upgrading the venues in recent years.
Carroll said seeing the state investing in the upkeep of these facilities is partially what motivated him to advocate for New Yorkers to consider hosting the Olympics again.
Salt Lake City, Utah, has been awarded the bid for the 2034 Winter Games. Los Angeles, California, was awarded the 2028 Summer Games. Norfolk Rowe said because of this, it’s unlikely for the U.S. will get another Olympic Games award soon.
The IOC now awards the Games more than a decade in advance.
It also requires a referendum of public support from regions that are potential bid sites before the IOC considers them as a candidate.
Carroll said they are hoping leaders in business, politics and civic groups see the op-ed, get interested, reach out to them and start discussing how they could start their research.
Norfolk Rowe said Jones has not directly discussed the op-ed with the ORDA board yet, but the board has a meeting next week and they might discuss it then. ORDA Board Chair Joe Martens indicated the agency would be interested in the findings of the committee.
“New York state has made significant investments in our venues to ensure that can continue to attract and host major winter sports events and the Olympic Authority welcomes the opportunity to explore a joint Olympic bid with New York City,” Martens told the Enterprise.
“As an organization who was born from an Olympics, it would be odd if we do not go through a discovery phase to see if it is something that fits us in the future,” Norfolk Rowe said.
ORDA’s venues regularly host World Cup and World Championship events for sliding, ski jumping and biathlon. In 2023, the FISU Winter World University Games were held at its venues.
Norfolk Rowe said the facilities’ infrastructure is pretty solid for world-class events. The Whiteface Mountain ski area would likely need upgrades, she said.
But the community’s ability to host needs to be evaluated, Norfolk Rowe added. The capacity of hotels, restaurants, roads, transportation and other logistics is tight in the remote Adirondack Park. She said they’d also have to evaluate the region’s capability to have an athletes’ village. Nearly 3,000 athletes are set to compete in the Milan-Cortina Games.
Carroll believes the Games could be entirely privately financed. That’s happening in LA and Salt Lake City, he said. There would still need to be local and state payments for infrastructure upgrades, he added. But he added that the Games are often a “catalyst” for getting these projects funding.
“Investments in public transit, housing, accessibility and youth sport would serve generations to come,” the op-ed states. “A legacy fund could expand access to skating, skiing and adaptive winter sport programs across the state, ensuring that every child, regardless of zip code or background, can experience the exhilaration of movement and the joy of belonging.”
Why does Jones want to pursue potentially hosting the Olympics again?
“Well, come on now. That’s self-explanatory,” he said.
Obviously, it’s cool, he said. He added that the idea of co-hosting with New York City is a “wonderful, unique idea” and that costs can be reduced by using all the existing facilities in both locations.
Lake Placid hosted the Winter Olympics in 1932 and 1980. Major winter sports venues were built for these Games. In the years after the 1980 games, there’s been discussion about Lake Placid hosting again. A quarter-century ago, there was consideration of Lake Placid co-hosting the Olympics with Montreal in Canada, but a true effort never materialized.
The op-ed pitches Madison Square Garden for ice hockey, Barclays Center for figure skating and short-track speed skating and Yankee Stadium for the big air competition.
New York has the nation’s largest media market and an “ideal time zone.” Jones and Carroll predict that a NYC-Lake Placid Games would deliver record attendance, viewership and revenue.
Norfolk Rowe said New York City has never hosted the Olympics. It had bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
ALBANY — The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced the 2026 Empire Pass …
One of the top concerns of youth pastors and ministry leaders is how often families are skipping church for travel sports. There’s no survey calculating how many families choose sports over church, and there’s a surprising lack of data surrounding how youth sports affect the local church. But most of us don’t need statistical evidence to prove what we experience each weekend. We all see it and feel it.
Yet it’s important to recognize that sports aren’t the enemy. Today’s youth sports culture presents an opportunity to do what ministry leaders should do best: help our people learn how to live in the world but not be of the world.
How do we do that when it comes to youth sports? How can sports become a strategic context for the life of our missional community? How can it function practically as an unsuspecting teammate instead of as our primary competitor?
Here are eight ideas ministry leaders can leverage to use sports as a missional ally, inspired by our new book Away Game: A Christian Parent’s Guide to Navigating Youth Sports. Four of them use your home-field advantage (church building), and the other four use an away-game opportunity (church body).
Home-Field Advantage (at Church)
1. Resource the kids by equipping their parents.
Most parents feel ill-equipped in the youth sports space because they aren’t being discipled for it. So it makes sense when they default to following the herd. Christian parents desperately need countercultural, sports-themed resources, created and shared by the church, to help them swim against the current.
Send them a weekly email (or post through social media) with tips for using sports as a playing field for spiritual formation. Curate a library of resources (sermons, audiobooks, and so on) for parents to listen to as they drive across state lines for the next competition.
Create a devotional for the parents or kids (or both). If you can’t write it yourself, there’s a growing list of options for youth sports parents on YouVersion.
Host a one-night event for youth sports parents specifically aimed at giving them a biblical approach to navigating this space. Leave plenty of room for Q&A. There’s never going to be a night when everyone is available, but pick a night and get the conversation started. Record it so people can interact with it when it’s convenient for them.
2. Make sports a regular part of your conversation.
Families involved in sports want—and need—to know that God cares about the way they think about and engage with sports.
They probably know they should glorify God through their sport. But most athletes haven’t been taught about pursuing God’s glory by anyone other than a high-profile athlete in a postgame soundbite. They assume it means a pre- or postgame prayer, pointing to heaven when good things happen, or giving God a shout-out to the media.
How can sports function practically as an unsuspecting teammate instead of as our primary competitor?
But the church can teach them what it looks like to approach sports in a way that honors God more holistically.
First, give them a theology of sports. Find ways to help them understand that God created sports as a good gift to be enjoyed.
Our sinful nature has fractured this good gift and turned it into one of culture’s most sacred idols. As Christians, we redeem sports back to their intended purpose by refusing to “conform to the pattern of this world” (Rom. 12:2, NIV) while embracing what it means to play with gratitude, with complete freedom, and conscious of God’s presence amid his good gift of play.
Second, give them biblical applications specific to sports. This is easy to include in a talk or sermon. Just contextualize your application to fit an athletic context.
For example, if you’re teaching on the Good Samaritan and what Jesus meant in his answer to “Who is my neighbor?” you might add something like this: “For those of you involved in sports, this means we need to have eyes to see those who need encouragement and help. It means comforting a person who just made a mistake or commending an opposing player on his or her skills after the game—no matter who won.”
3. Host a free middle school sports camp.
This has to be scheduled well in advance because sports schedules fill up quickly. But what parents wouldn’t want their young athlete to learn how to integrate faith and sport? What kid wouldn’t want to spend a couple of days away from the pressure of her current team and play with her friends?
A youth sports camp gives the church an opportunity to show and tell how sports can be experienced as a good gift from God.
4. Start a discipleship initiative pairing former coaches and athletes at your church with younger athletes.
Did you know that 65 percent of adult Americans grew up playing sports? That means two-thirds of your church knows what it’s like to think, breathe, and play sports. What if you equipped your discipleship bench with 10 to 15 former athletes or coaches who agreed to meet a few times with any young athlete at your church to talk about life, faith—and sports?
Little Olivia may not want to learn from her parents. But she’d probably be willing to sit down and talk with any former female college athletes who attend your church. This uses the platform of sports as a bridge toward discipleship. Get your former athletes in the game!
Away-Game Opportunity (at the Field)
1. Go to them.
Showing up at their games sends unspoken messages to the athletes and their parents: “I care about you. I care about what you care about. I support your passion and what God created you to be.” Being at games offers the additional benefit of supporting other kids from the community.
If possible, bring another student or church parent with you to watch and cheer. This is a great space for shoulder-to-shoulder ministry but also for the participating athlete to feel the presence of a larger community supporting him.
2. Pack the community stands with your church body.
Encourage your entire church to show up at a local youth sports game together and cheer like crazy for your home team. You could have a lot of fun with this idea and build momentum within your church and the local community.
Showing up at their games sends an unspoken message to the athletes and their parents: ‘I care about you.’
You might choose a sport that rarely has fans show up. Give your church a roster so they know the names of each athlete participating. Imagine the ripple effects if your church became the community that every local athletic team hoped would choose their home game to show up and pack out the stadium. Tell them to cheer for the home team, not against the visiting team. And please, tell them not to yell at the officials!
3. Be the concession-stand MVP.
This is straight out of Jesus’s playbook. Meet the people where they are—and find a way to feed them. Assuming you have a budget for this, give everyone in the stands a ticket for a free concession-stand item.
This supports your local team or school (which is a partnership win), and it’s a huge win for everyone who gets a free snack or drink. If you’re able to print your church name, address, and service times on the ticket, that’s a great way to invite people to church.
4. Bring drinks for everyone.
If there are no concessions, show up at your local fields and bless the parents with free drinks. Give water when it’s hot and coffee when it’s not. Again, feel free to put your church information on stickers or flyers. Let people know how they can join your God-glorifying, sports-loving church community.
Bonus Idea:Host or provide a pregame meal. Youth sports teams occasionally meet at one of the parents’ houses and share a meal. If this is true of a team connected to a church member, consider offering to let them use the church facilities.
If you have the resources, you might even want to supply the food. Check with the coach to see if a quick devotion or testimony would be permitted. If not, you can always print flyers for any interested parents or students.
Subaru’s Gear for Good initiative targets distribution of at least 2,026 pieces of soccer equipment through April 2026 across Philadelphia and Camden communities
Five beneficiary organizations selected to receive new gear tailored to their program needs: Capitolo Youth Soccer Club, Dr. Henry H. Davis School, Project Primacy, Safe-Hub Philly, and Youth Development United
Collection network includes 17 Subaru retailers and Subaru Park, with equipment flowing to more than 100 youth programs through partnerships with Leveling the Playing Field and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation
Initiative launches ahead of major soccer events coming to Philadelphia in 2026, leveraging timing to expand youth access to the sport
Community members can donate gear through April 3, 2026, with sweepstakes prizes including a trip to the 2026 MLS All-Star Weekend
Subaru of America announced December 5 the five local organizations that will receive equipment through its Gear for Good initiative, a soccer-focused program designed to expand youth access in the Philadelphia and Camden region. The automaker structured the program around both direct equipment grants to selected organizations and an ongoing collection system that distributes gear to youth programs across the area.
Equipment Distribution Through Dual-Track System
The initiative operates through two distribution channels. The five named beneficiary organizations will receive brand-new equipment from Subaru customized to their specific program requirements. Separately, Subaru established a collection network of 17 retail locations plus Subaru Park in Chester, PA, where community members can donate new or gently used soccer gear including cleats, goalie gloves, shin guards, and balls.
Collected equipment flows to more than 100 youth programs through coordination with Leveling the Playing Field, a nonprofit specializing in sports equipment redistribution, and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. The collection period runs through April 3, 2026, with Subaru targeting distribution of at least 2,026 pieces of equipment. Any surplus items beyond the five primary beneficiaries will reach additional youth organizations throughout the collection period.
“At Subaru, we believe in showing up for our communities in ways that truly matter,” said Alan Bethke, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Subaru of America. “These organizations are already doing powerful work to support kids through the game of soccer, and we’re proud that Subaru: Gear for Good will help deepen that impact, especially as we head into 2026.”
Five Organizations Selected Based on Youth Development Mission
Subaru selected each beneficiary organization for its established work supporting local youth through soccer and sports development programs:
Capitolo Youth Soccer Club uses soccer to teach fitness, sportsmanship, respect, and community values. The club emphasizes player development through experimentation and creativity without judgment.
Dr. Henry H. Davis School in East Camden serves approximately 475 students from Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade across various learning modalities. The school is named after Camden’s first medical inspector, whose work in school health and nutrition saved children’s lives in the early 1900s.
Project Primacy focuses specifically on Black and Brown children in inner-city Philadelphia, providing access to sports, mentorship, and development opportunities. The foundation runs free soccer clinics and fundraising events including its “Dribble & Carry” Broad Street RUNdraiser.
Safe-Hub Philly operates soccer-based out-of-school-time programs focused on personal development, health, education, and employment. The organization positions soccer as a stigma-free entry point for families to access supportive services.
Youth Development United provides children from under-served communities with extracurricular opportunities through sports and recreational programs, offering after-school and weekend activities that increase access to mentorship, wellness, and personal development.
Partnership Leverages Existing Infrastructure and Nonprofit Expertise
The program builds on existing relationships between Subaru, the Philadelphia Union, Leveling the Playing Field, and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. Subaru already has naming rights to the Union’s home stadium in Chester, giving the company an established presence in the region’s soccer community.
Leveling the Playing Field brings operational expertise in equipment collection and redistribution. Founded in 2013, the organization addresses cost barriers in youth sports by collecting and sorting donated equipment, then supplying it to schools, community programs, and youth organizations. This model allows youth programs to redirect limited budgets from equipment purchases toward transportation, nutrition, staffing, and program expansion.
“Partnering with Subaru in celebration of the global soccer heading to Philadelphia greatly amplifies our mission, to expand access and equity within the realm of youth sports,” said Kaitlin Brennan, Chief Operating Officer of Leveling the Playing Field. “This effort provides children with the opportunity to get involved with sports at a young age, granting the chance to experience the holistic benefits of youth sports on their physical, mental, and emotional health.”
Philadelphia Parks & Recreation manages nearly 10,200 acres of public land and waterways plus 500 recreation buildings, providing the public infrastructure where much of this equipment will be used. Commissioner Susan Slawson noted the initiative aligns with the city’s preparation for hosting major soccer events in 2026.
Community Engagement Through Donation Sweepstakes
To encourage community participation, Subaru created a sweepstakes tied to equipment donations. Legal U.S. residents age 18 and older living within a 75-mile radius of Subaru Park can enter for a chance to win prizes including a trip to the 2026 MLS All-Star Weekend. The sweepstakes runs concurrent with the collection period through April 3, 2026.
The initiative launched on the same day as draw announcements for soccer events coming to Philadelphia in 2026, timing designed to leverage heightened interest in the sport. Charlie Slonaker, Chief Revenue Officer of the Philadelphia Union, connected the equipment access initiative to broader participation goals.
“The Subaru: Gear for Good initiative helps remove equipment barriers, so access is determined by passion, not resources,” Slonaker said. “With the excitement of 2026 coming to Philadelphia, we’re proud to work with Subaru of America and Leveling the Playing Field to expand opportunities for youth across the area and help continue to grow the game.”
Strategic Context for Corporate Youth Sports Investment
The initiative represents Subaru’s approach to community engagement in a region where it maintains significant retail and branding presence. The company operates through approximately 640 retailers nationwide and manufactures vehicles in zero-landfill plants. Over the past 20 years, Subaru of America and its foundation have donated more than $340 million to causes aligned with company values, with employees logging over 115,000 volunteer hours.
For the Philadelphia Union, the program extends the club’s youth development focus. The Union has signed 25 academy prospects to homegrown player contracts and operates Philadelphia Union II, the Academy, Foundation, and Youth Programs under parent company Union Sports and Entertainment LLC. The club’s waterfront campus in Chester includes a training complex and over seven acres of professional-grade practice pitches, with a newly announced WSFS Bank Sportsplex featuring an indoor fieldhouse and seven outdoor fields.
The timing ahead of 2026 positions the initiative to capitalize on increased soccer interest while addressing equipment access barriers that limit youth participation. By distributing gear through established community programs and municipal recreation systems, the partnership aims to reach families who face cost barriers to sports participation.
Community members interested in donating equipment or learning about sweepstakes eligibility can find details at philadelphiaunion.com/SubaruGearforGood.
via: Subaru of America, Inc.
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