Dear Redding Members:

Spring is just around the corner, and we are getting ready for a great season of baseball, softball and lacrosse at the Redding Boys & Girls Club. We are actively collecting registration, and we would love for you to join us!.

Our spring sports committees have been hard at work this winter developing programs that will not only help our children improve as athletes but as friends and teammates, as well. In addition to new in-door skills clinics for our baseball, softball and lacrosse players, we have coordinated new coaching clinics, including sessions with the "Positive Coaching Alliance," which are designed to help our volunteer coaches in every sport provide a fun and constructive environment for everyone.

The next PCA session will be held:

Saturday, February 27, 2010
First Aid Coaches Refresher Course: 11:30-12 PM (beginners welcome!)
PCA Session: 12 PM  to 2 PM
Joel Barlow High School Auditorium

Again, our PCA Workshops are open to head coaches and assistant coaches for every RBGC sport: Baseball, Softball, Basketball, Field Hockey, Lacrosse, and Volleyball!

A PCA session for PARENTS is also in the works........ it is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, March 13th, time TBD.

For more information on ...
Baseball click here
Softball click here
Lacrosse click here

To register ...
For Baseball and/or Softball click here
Register for Lacrosse click here

If you have any questions or concerns please contact the following Committee Chairs.
Baseball - Ron Berry,
Softball - Kevin Ota,
Lacrosse - Peter Wasmer,

Which ever sport you choose to play this spring, we hope to see you out on the field with us!

by posted 12/08/2009
 

ALL RBGC Past, Present and Future Coaches


Happy New Year! This is a quick reminder that the Redding Boys & Girls Club is conducting its first Positive Coaching Alliance workshop this Saturday 1/9 from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm at the Joel Barlow High School Cafeteria.

As we've mentioned before, RBGC has partnered with the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) to help support coaches of every sport run by the Club, and we are adding the PCA workshops to the required curriculum that ALL of our Baseball, Softball and Lacrosse Coaches must complete in order to coach this year.

The primary focus of the PCA workshops is to help us strike the balance between preparing our kids to compete and win, while also teaching them life lessons on the field. Again, this coming season, we are requiring every coach to attend one PCA Workshop.

Subsequent dates and times for PCA clinics below. We strongly encourage you to attend the first clinic this weekend.

Please RSVP for this Saturday's workshop, if you haven't already.

For more information about the Positive Coaching Alliance, you can visit the PCA web site: www.positivecoach.org.

• Training our coaches to become Double-Goal Coaches, whose first goal is winning, and whose second, more-important goal is teaching life lessons through sports;
• Developing Second-Goal Parents, who focus on helping their youth athletes learn those life lessons;
• Cultivating Triple-Impact Competitors, student athletes who strive to improve themselves, their teammates and their sport as a whole.

    

by posted 03/18/2009
 

Redding, Connecticut, March 9^th 2009 – Stephen Fitzgerald is a true example of an extraordinary young man. At age 17, he has just been selected as the Youth of the Year for the Jesse P. Sanford Boys & Girls Club of Redding. Fitzgerald is among hundreds of local Youth of the Year winners across the country recognized by Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) for his sound character, leadership skills and willingness to give back to the community.

Stephen Fitzgerald is a junior at JBHS and has been a member of RBGC for 6 years.  He has played baseball, supervised basketball, and is currently Vice President of our very active RBGC Keystone Club, which is a teen leadership and community service group.  Outside of RBGC, Stephen is active in his church youth group and is a leader in school, founding a club called Reconstruction in Progress (RIP) to enhance student-teacher relationships.

  Being named Youth of the Year is the highest honor a Boys & Girls Club member can receive. The title recognizes outstanding contributions to a member’s family, school, community and Boys & Girls Club, as well as personal challenges and obstacles overcome. This program was founded over 60 years ago through the generosity of the Reader’s Digest Foundation.

    

by posted 03/10/2009
 

Nominee's from left to right: Jenna Frascatore, Charlie Ambler, Steve Fitzgerald and Megan DunLeavy

Youth of the Year Nominees share the stage taking a moment to congratulate our 2009 Local Youth of the Year Finalist, Stephen Fitzgerald. 

Stephen will no go on to represent the Redding Boys & Girls Club in the State Youth of the Year Competition scheduled for Wednesday, April 29th.