Non-profits team up to offer football camps

Getting kids to play sports is the mission for two non-profits in our area.

And this weekend, they teamed up for a football camp for kids who otherwise might not have the opportunity.

Urban Sports Academy and Kids in the Game hosted a camp at Summit High School.

Urban Sports Academy, which relocated to Bend from Portland last year, provides affordable athletic camps for boys and girls for those age 8 through eighth grade.

Kids in the Game helps cover registration fees for low income kids in our area.

“Kids get a chance to play sports,” Natalie Hummel, executive director for Kids in the Game, said Sunday. “And (they) get all those positive experiences of learning about leadership and teamwork and discipline and hard work, and sets them on a really good path for life.”

“What we try to do is get kids, because maybe they don’t have the opportunity because of the cost barrier (or) because of the area they live in,” said Kristal Hyatt, co-founder of Urban Sports Academy. “So we want to have camps around the city, we want to go to Redmond, go into Madras, those communities that also need some services.”

Both of the organizations rely on donations.

If you would like to know more, you can visit www.urbansportsacademy.org or www.kidsinthegame.org