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Youth Programs

Tomorrow's collegiate student-athletes are today's grade-schoolers and high-schoolers. That's why the NCAA, its members, and the corporations it teams with conduct and support many programs aimed at preparing youth for the challenges they will face in the future – in the classroom, on the job and on the field of play. Below are links to many of those programs and Web-based resources.

  • Take a Kid to the Game
    A program encouraging adults to take children to collegiate athletic contests.
  • Youth Clinics
    The NCAA Youth Clinics are a community outreach program that connects kids ages 8-16 with the basketball and baseball championship and provides them with resources designed to have a lasting impact.
  • Sporting Geography®
    Provides teachers with reproducible lesson plans and desk maps that can be used at any time.
  • iHoops
    A NCAA/NBA youth basketball initiative that will provide supporting services and programs for youth basketball players ages 6 to 18, their parents, coaches, officials, and team and event administrators.
  • NCAA Middle School Madness
    The Middle School Madness program provides an opportunity to bring the 2012 NCAA Final Four into the classroom as a teaching and learning opportunity. The program is comprised of an educational curriculum, developed by the NCAA.  More than 8,000 students from 18 New Orleans-area middle schools will participate in the program.