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America SCORES Timeline
1994
DC SCORES is founded at Marie Reed Elementary by D.C. public school teacher Julie Kennedy. Kennedy began her after-school program of soccer, poetry, and community service after noticing that girls in her class had fewer extracurricular opportunities than boys.
DC SCORES receives funding for equipment and coaching from the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) in the wake of the 1994 Men’s World Cup. U.S. Soccer stars John Harkes, Jeff Agoos, Cobi Jones, and Alexi Lalas visit D.C. and host a training clinic for DC SCORES, which is reaching 300 poet-athletes at ten schools.
1996
Honorable Don Horowitz founded Seattle SCORES and was incorporated on December 18, 2002.
2002
DC SCORES’ model debuts in Seattle, adding to the America SCORES network, which now serves more than 13,000 poet-athletes in 13 cities across North America. A large portion of expansion funding comes from U.S. Soccer as a legacy program of the 1994 Men’s World Cup.
2003
Tubman Elementary School poet-athlete Luis accompanies President Barack Obama for the signing of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
2011
Volkswagen donates its Women’s World Cup advertising space to America SCORES. The 30-second ad features poet-athletes from Truesdell Elementary School and is set to an original poem by DC SCORES staff member Charity Blackwell.
2019
Artemis Ward creates an award-winning commercial for America SCORES that air’s during the Men’s World Cup. The ad features DC SCORES poet-athletes, coaches, and locations.
2022
What We Do
Our Mission & Values
Building the confidence and character to succeed — on the field, in the classroom and in life.
Since 2000, we’ve accomplished that goal by delivering free after-school and summer programming that combines three equally fun, powerful activities: soccer, poetry and service-learning. Together they help us shape enthusiastic students into Poet-Athletes, who grow passionate about our program’s activities—and grow actively engaged in our communities, city and world.
Mission
America SCORES Seattle inspires youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world.
History
America SCORES was founded by a D.C. public school teacher, and we are deeply invested in the neighborhoods where we work. We have faith in the power of young people to create change through sports, the arts, and service.
