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"Our goals are higher than 10 feet and longer than 100 yards"

Our Priority Is……. Making A Difference in the Life of a Child  

Children are the future.

Teaching them important values and helping them make the right decisions is a priority. There is nothing more vital than guiding children down the right path on their journey through life. Rising Stars Sports Association: “ THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT OUR FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.”

What is R.S.S.A?

Rising Stars Sports Association is an uninsured non-profit – 501 (c)(3) youth organization which offers programs that include

• Sports leagues
• Sports camps, clinics and tournaments
• Community Involvement Centers / Programs ( i.e. B&G Club, Mid-MO Food Bank, Optimist Club, P.R.I.D.E., etc. )
• Positive role models as speakers, instructors, mentors to children

To foster, promote, and encourage sports, sportsmanship, responsibility, physical contests, and athletics, particularly at the juvenile level of age, as a means of building character, physical health, well-being, and self-discipline among the younger generation in order to fit them more adequately for their future role in-society.

To organize, operate, and maintain a program of sports and recreational activity, particularly for boys and girls of the juvenile level of age; to develop , provide, sponsor, and regulate clinics and/or camps for boys and girls for instruction, recreation, athletics, tournaments, sport, civic, cultural and other wholesome activities in their free hours from school, assuring that adequate supervision and guidance may be proffered to them to aid and maintain their physical health and mental condition to contribute to the well-being of the community from which the boys and girls come.

To organize local competitions, promulgate rules, organize officials, present seminars/clinics, distribute a newsletter, and otherwise encourage growth of sports.

Rising Stars Sports Association programs feature sports as a conduit to assist young people in developing their dreams into reality. Our motto is "if you dream it, you can become it." So much money is spent today to fix problems after they've already occurred. With the amount of media our children are exposed to every day we feel this needs to be balanced with a positive alternative for youth.

Rising Stars Sports Association recognizes this and wants to address problems before they occur. We plan do this by teaching not only athletic skills, but life skills as well. We accept , understand and work under the premise that participation in sports reflects much of life. Understanding and developing sportsmanship, self-discipline, responsibility, and learning the value of hard work develops these skills for life. Becoming a leader in sports means becoming a leader in life.

Goals of R.S.S.A.

The goals of our programs are to provide children with an opportunity to act / interact in a safe environment while learning skills, sportsmanship, and the value of an education.

Rising Stars Sports Association is dedicated and devoted to offering athletic activities and building skills but, more importantly, we strive to serve as mentors and positive role models for all of the youth involved in our programs. Leading by example, all participants (coaches and players) will set the highest standards for good sportsmanship. Through the programs of

Rising Stars Sports Association we hope to help support youth involved organizations as a community partner to help enable them to offer a variety of programs including drug and alcohol abuse education, academic tutoring and advisement.

Rising Stars Sports Association is an organization that wants to reach out to children of all races and economic backgrounds, because we recognize that every child in today's society is a child at risk. Our goals include reaching all children, offering scholarships to our clinics and camps, and sharing our philosophy of success with others who want more for our children.

Mission Statement

"If you believe it, you can achieve it!"

• To provide an alternative outlet that helps children deter from social ills that often plague today's youth.
• To help fulfill the potential that each child possesses by providing the tools to reach that potential in a positive arena.

Rising Stars Sports Association was founded on the basis of, "The best way to predict the future is to create it." Rising Stars Sports Association strives to make a difference one child at a time, with the belief that working to improve the quality of life for our youth today will determine the quality of life of our tomorrow.

Our goal is to reach out and touch thousands of children. Our message and philosophy will prove to be a positive influence over time and be a deterrent to drugs, violence, promiscuity and other social ills.

Rising Stars Sports Association itself teaches sports skills, sportsmanship, the value of an education, self-discipline, responsibility, and hard work to children. Its goal is to integrate each of its values so that the result yields a strong, confident, and self-respected individual prepared for the challenges that will come ahead. In addition to our own programs, Rising Stars Sports Association plans to work with various independent organizations that conduct their own clinics, camps, seminars, tournaments, and workshops to share our processes and “create our future.”

Rising Stars Sports Association Clinics.

We Plan To Reach Children! Our goal at these clinics, are to teach children to have positive mental attitude that will help them approach any challenge that presents itself. Emphasis will be placed on the belief that a miracle exists within every one of us. In the setting of a clinic with athletics as a vehicle, discussions will be had on how the application of a positive mental attitude will help students to approach any challenge. Rising Stars Sports Association plans to build our future, spend quality time with our youth and provide them a place to have fun and build character. From this, we plan to have testimonials of participants who either have overcome poverty, physical , academic, and athletic disadvantages to go on to succeed in sports and in life. Our goal is to have extensive player-coach interaction and instruction, which will allow each child to become a partner in their own development.

Rising Stars Sports Association seeks to promote the integration of sports and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, creed, national origin, color, or disability.

Rising Stars Sports Association’s 501(c)(3) Internal Revenue Service EIN # : 83-0393764