SCHWEINFURT, Germany - The Child, Youth and School Services sports program here, with support from the Army Family Covenant, continues to bring sports to the children - wherever they may be.
The "traveling sports programs," which have been part of youth sports for many months, have expanded, according to Adio Toliver, U.S. Army Garrison Schweinfurt CYSS sports program associate.
"With the success that we had, we figured it would be easier to bring the programs to the kids and the youth than to get them to come in to us," Toliver said, explaining that staffers visit not only the child development center, but also the teen center, school age services and even the schools.
"We're making sure we're in those schools, because that's a shared facility. We have the same kids," Toliver said.
CYSS sports has broadened beyond the basic team sports,
Toliver said, and ideas for new sports and activities continue to come in. "We're not just baseball, basketball, football, soccer. We're doing our best to meet everyone's needs," he said.
The CYSS sports all contain basic curriculum or guiding goals that individual managers can adjust, based on the children's needs, Toliver said.
"At each level, they're going to get more information about the sport," he said, beginning with the bambino leagues that introduce children to the very basics. "As they progress, they learn strategy, they learn teamwork, they learn sharing."
And new children are always welcome to jump in and participate.
"We're here for the kids. It's a time they can come and learn a new sport, be with friends," said Derek Walker, CYSS sports assistant director.
"We always have new kids starting through all the age groups," Walker said.
"Whatever we can help you with, we're getting out to do that," Toliver said.
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