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South Philadelphia: FDR Park Plan Brings New Hope To Philadelphia Youth Sports Organizations

May 23, 2023 Dylan James Bowman

FDR Park in Philadelphia has begun construction on their decade-long park plan, which has many youth sports organizations excited about all the benefits it will bring.

Amateur Sports

Amateur Sports: Holy Ghost and the COVID-Infected High School Hockey Season

May 31, 2021 Dylan Robert Coyle

Holy Ghost hockey has played through a season full of protocols and stoppages only to keep pushing through.

Amateur Sports

Amateur Sports: Roman Catholic Soccer Coach Chronicles His Team’s Last Year

March 22, 2021 Dylan Robert Coyle

Raymond DeStephanis found out Roman would have an abbreviated 2020 fall season through social media.

Amateur Sports

Kensington: Shaping the Person, Then the Player

April 1, 2019 Lawrence O'Connor

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

Amateur Sports

Grays Ferry: Gym Stands To Box Out Violence

November 2, 2016 Margaret E Andresen

Sweat trickled down muscled backs, down onto the blue canvas stretched over a wooden frame which was pieced together by a carpenter from down the block. Fluorescent lights flickered over the glory of former champions

Amateur Sports

Kensington: Christopher Mundy – From Writing To Coaching

June 24, 2016 Oksana S Ponomarova

Christopher Munden, 39, an expat from the U.K., has worn many hats in his life. He has been everything from a ski instructor to the editor-in-chief of the independent theater and arts website Phindie. Today,

Amateur Sports

Northeast Philadelphia: Lansing Knights Youth Organization Teaches Kids Life Values

March 11, 2015

The Lansing Knights Youth Organization provides kids from preschool to high school with the opportunity to play sports and hopefully learn a few lessons about life along the way. Brian Dunfee has had an active

Amateur Sports

Olney: 10th and Olney Continues to Prosper With Youth Sports

July 14, 2014

The atmosphere is undoubtedly electric. The crowd of more than 100 is hulking court-side as Philadelphia’s best high school ballers do battle in the most illustrious, competitive summer-ball league in the city. The players know

Amateur Sports

Germantown: Soccer Sisters Meet With Friends of Vernon Park, Discussing Future Plans

June 18, 2013

Soccer Sisters United, a youth girls program located in Germantown, is facing mixed opinions about their current game field in Vernon Park. During a recent Friends of Vernon Park meeting, a few parents, players and

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