Amateur Sports

Felix Agosto has been the head of MVP360, a nonprofit organization that facilitates youth sports teams for seven years. When COVID shut down youth sports leagues, Agosto pivoted his impact to career and social-emotional coaching over Zoom, through the Leadership Academy. [continue reading…]

Raymond DeStephanis found out Roman would have an abbreviated 2020 fall season through social media. [continue reading…]

When the Penn Relays were cancelled in March, many high school athletes lost out on an opportunity to impress college recruiters, including the team at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey. [continue reading…]

With the help of Beat the Streets, Daishawn Tilghman found a passion that will carry him on to college. [continue reading…]

Though an uncommon sport, roller derby embodies the “gritty” culture associated with Philadelphia sports. [continue reading…]

Sebastian Bttacavoli doesn’t like to wait.  As an 11-year-old living with autism, waiting doesn’t come easily in everyday life. But after finding a niche playing goalie for the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation’s 12 and [continue reading…]

Throughout his six years at the Cecil B. Moore Library at 23rd Street and Ridge Avenue, Sun Moon Bey, librarian and lead maker, has seen many changes, but none more gratifying than the successful revamp [continue reading…]

One could say Mark Lavelle was born to coach. At age 15, before some kids even begin playing team sports, Lavelle was already coaching neighborhood kids in Kensington as a way to keep them away [continue reading…]