Crew/Rowing

CREW/ROWING

GENERAL BENEFITS

•    A highly aerobic activity that improves cardiovascular fitness and exercises all major muscle groups

•    Particularly strengthens the back, legs, abdominals, and buttocks.

•    Builds teamwork and camaraderie given the intense collaborative effort and precise team timing needed to be successful.

•    The sport is relatively injury-free.
•    Everyone rows so bench warming is not an issue.

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Climbing

CLIMBING

GENERAL BENEFITS

•    Teaches intense concentration, problem-solving on the go, patience to make a calculated next move, and perseverance to reach the top

•    Strengthens mental acuity, self-reliance, and fear-coping skills.

•    Offers an aerobic workout that exercises almost every muscle group for full-body conditioning

•    Improves strength, endurance, balance, flexibility, and coordination.

•    Offers the satisfaction of mastering a challenge

•    Outdoor climbs offer spectacular scenery.

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Cheerleading

CHEERLEADING

GENERAL BENEFITS

•    Provides strenuous aerobic exercise through stunts, dancing, tumbling, jumping and conditioning

•    Builds upper and lower body strength.

•    Develops balance, flexibility, agility, and coordination.

•    Teaches teamwork and a high level of trust for teammates, especially as the stunts increase in difficulty.

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Bowling

BOWLING

GENERAL BENEFITS

•    Builds strength, endurance, flexibility, and balance

•    Develops good eye-hand coordination

•    Builds control and accuracy

•    Provides anaerobic exercise.

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Basketball

BASKETBALL

GENERAL BENEFITS

•    Improves overall strength, endurance, and conditioning, as it involves continual sprinting, jumping, shooting and rebounding

•    Improves hand-eye coordination.

•    Teaches interdependence and teamwork.

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Baseball, Softball, & T-Ball

BASEBALL, SOFTBALL & T-BALL

T-BALL: THE START FOR BOTH BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL

•    An estimated 2.2 million children participate in T-ball, about 65% of them boys and 35% girls.

•    There are no pitchers in T-Ball. Instead, players use a soft safety ball and hit it off a torso-high tee. All players have the opportunity to bat and play the field. No strikes and balls are called on the batter. A coach or umpire will assist if the child has not hit the ball after many swings. Runners must remain on base until the ball is hit and are not allowed to steal bases. An inning is over when all children have batted once. T-Ball games usually have a time limit rather than an inning limit. Otherwise, a nine-inning tee ball game could last for over three hours.

•    Most children start out by playing T-Ball between ages 4 to 8.

•    By age eight, children move on to baseball or softball.

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