Detroit PAL

Boys & girls school basketball is a program pal has run for over 20 years. We work directly with schools throughout the Detroit and greater Detroit area to organize, administer, and operate middle school and elementary basketball leagues for student-athletes at a variety ofcharter, public, and private schools.during our 2023 season, we had 82 teams representing 1200 youth and 125 volunteers. Teams were involved in the program an average of 10 hours per week for a 12-week program that teaches life lessons through sports including goalsetting, resilience, embracing health, and accountability. Our League is successful because we bring together a variety of different schools from various regions of the city to work together in one League focused on competing, bringing out the best in others, and developing on the court and off the court development.

Football is a program pal has run for many years in conjunction with myfl. Our football and cheer programs have existed for more than 40 years and continue to be a feeder system for sports into our school programs. We work directly with football nonprofit organizations throughout the Detroit and greater Detroit area to organize, administer, and operate middle school and elementary football programs for student-athletes. Practices and games areprogrammed at a variety of public fields throughout the season. We had 12 football organizations for the 2023 season. Each organization providing a variety of 5 football teams at several age levels. That totaled 60 football teams with 1275 youth and 300 volunteers. Teams were involved in the program an average of 8 hours per week for a 12-week program that taught life lessons through sports including goalsetting, resilience, embracing health, andaccountability.

Detroit pal has been running diamond sports leagues for more than 50 years. Diamond sports involve baseball, softball, and t-ball program. Our fall 2023 baseball League, now called fall ball, was created to develop outdoor play during the pandemic and had 8 teams representing 114 youth and 16 volunteers. The combined number for all diamond sports was 90 teams representing 1200 youth and 180 volunteers. The diamond sports League surpassed the pre-pandemic numbers in 2020 and 2021 due to the increase in outdoor play. The teams were involved in the program an average of 8 hours per week for a 10-week program that taught life lessons through sports including goalsetting, resilience, embracing health, and accountability.our League is successful because we were able to bring back sport in a safe, positive way for some youth new to the sport and many that were looking to continue their passion and skill development. We were able to host most of our games at the corner ballpark, presented by adient, which was the location of the old tiger stadium off of Michigan near trumbull.

Introduction of our little's programs allowed pal to develop mighty cheer, little putters, tiny tennis, little hoopers, little lions, and flag football. These program provide youth with the introdution to all sports program and assist youth in deciding which sport that would like to participate in. Without limitations of one sport over the other. This introduction allowed more than 500 young participants to play, learn about the sport and the importance of team work and sportmanship. Other sports such as cheer, hockey, and volleyball remained strong throughout the year.