Sports Challenge is STRIVE’s immersive summer experience for student-athletes entering grades 7–9. Athletes sharpen their soccer or basketball skills, discover what kind of leader they can be, and have a whole lot of fun along the way.
EVERY ATHLETE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS.
Strive offers financial assistance to help ensure every young person has the opportunity to participate in Sports Challenge. Families who need support can complete the scholarship application before registering.
Individual skill development takes place in small groups, allowing for focused coaching and personalized feedback. We challenge student-athletes to step outside their comfort zones, take risks, and gradually turn weaknesses into strengths.
By the end of the program, athletes leave with a mature understanding of their sport and the confidence to showcase an expanded, well-rounded skill set.
Each Day Includes: 2 Athletic Sessions
Athletes develop their skills in small groups through focused coaching, personalized feedback, and challenges that build confidence.
STRIVE’s high-energy speed, strength, and agility session features drills and conditioning inspired by collegiate and professional training.
Interactive classes help athletes explore self-awareness, motivation, teamwork, gratitude, and thoughtful risk-taking.
Group challenges give athletes opportunities to communicate, collaborate, support one another, and put leadership into action.
Participants practice self awareness, motivation, teamwork, gratitude and thoughtful risk taking on and off the field.
Athletes build the awareness and skills to lead themselves and lead well with others.
Build self-awareness
Read people and situations
Turn insight into action
Create trust and alignment
All Sports Challenge coaches are current or former college athletes with experience competing at the highest levels of their sport. They create the unique community that defines the Sports Challenge experience and bring firsthand knowledge of elite training and competition directly to our student-athletes. Our coaches play a vital role in shaping the “SC Experience,” guiding and inspiring each participant throughout the program.
The curriculum is designed and continuously refined by career educators. Our research-based, interactive classes are led by engaging teachers who challenge student-athletes to identify their leadership strengths and intentionally improve areas for growth. Over the five days of Sports Challenge and beyond, participants develop skills that translate both on and off the field.