Sports Shed News
Rust-Oleum Cares and the web.com Day of Caring
The Sports Shed and Rust-Oleum Cares joined web.com players Nick Hardy and TK Kelly at Learn Charter in North Chicago. Volunteers from Rust-Oleum and golfers helped kick off a celebration for a new after school program that will launch next year. The kids received...
Perspective Leadership Academy Softball Team
The Sports Shed fit eight girls today from Perspective Leadership Academy's softball team with brand new cleats. Good luck this season!
Legal Prep Academy Baseball Delivery
Legal Prep Charter Academy is a free, open-enrollment public high school located in the West Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago. Legal Prep uses its unique law-themed curriculum and culture of high expectations to cultivate compassion, self-motivation, and...
Project Sponsorship Makes An Impact
As The Sports Shed enters its 9th year in operation, we are impacting more programs in much larger ways. One of those ways is though project sponsorship from the community. A request came in last October from LEARN 6 Charter School in North Chicago. The request was...
An Afternoon With The Sports Shed
You are familiar with the impact The Sports Shed has on kids in Chicago's toughest neighborhoods, right? This video gives you another glimpse of the difference we make on a daily basis. But there's a catch, literally! On this particular afternoon into evening, we...
Olympic Sized Dreams
Legal Prep Charter Academy in Chicago’s West Garfield Park
It’s been a violent holiday weekend in Chicago but that has not stopped a west side high school from playing baseball. Legal Prep Charter Academy in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood is making a positive impact with The Sports Shed’s help. In just its second...
Sports Shed makes it possible for hundreds of kids to play baseball this spring!
The Black Yankees are just one of dozens of baseball programs that The Sports Shed made miracles happen for! Accessing the uniforms, helmets, bats and more that they need makes it possible for them to field a team! This year was by far The Sports Shed’s biggest in...
See Who The Sports Shed Supports!
“That’s better than being invited to the White House.” That’s what Ty Young from KAOS Youth Foundation said when we invited him to come out to the shed recently. We have a long standing relationship with him and their program for inner-city kids and wanted him to be...
