Mission Statement
Sports Health Discipline = A Better Tomorrow
- Red Zone Camps exists to maintain children’s sports camps to educate and motivate school-aged children to improve their organizational skills, build their confidence through team work, learn what it takes to live a healthy lifestyle, and to strive for greater personal goals. Red Zone offers these opportunities as an alternative to drugs, sedentary lifestyles and other negative behaviors.
- Statistics demonstrate that there is a correlation between academics and sports. Children involved in athletics score higher in their academic endeavors.
- To possess the knowledge of what it means to live a healthy lifestyle adds another element of possibility to a child’s life.
- The take-away from all of this is sustainable through-out life’s experiences and into adulthood. The goal is to create the most desirable citizens of tomorrow for our communities.
History of Red Zone
Red Zone Camps is a non-profit organization established in 2012 to offer children in grades K-12 opportunities to:
President and CEO, Doug Henderson, has led in the organization’s exponential growth from 33 to over 650 campers in four different camps/clinics in the course of its ten-year history.
“I was only thinking of flag football initially,” states Henderson, “and hoping there was interest in the community.” In 2016, a basketball camp was added and in 2017 the soccer camp was added due too many requests. “My dream has evolved and continues to expand as more people get involved with Red Zone. I would also love to host Special Needs Camps so that Red Zone is inclusive to more and more children,” Henderson explains. “In addition, scholarships will enable financially-challenged families to participate in Red Zone Camps as well as any area high school sports program. Playing sports can motivate students to improve the kind of organizational skills needed to succeed academically.”
With over 15 qualified and well-experienced coaches and camp counselors, a child’s Red Zone experience is designed to be life-affirming.
“The greatest lesson I have personally learned from my experience in the classroom as a teacher and out on the field as a coach,” says Henderson, “is that academics and sports correlate. The take-away is sustainable through-out life’s experiences. We don’t want any barriers to that goal –financially or physically --if at all possible.”
- Develop confidence
- Acquire and hone skills
- Learn principles of teamwork
- Experience an environment based on value of character and having fun
President and CEO, Doug Henderson, has led in the organization’s exponential growth from 33 to over 650 campers in four different camps/clinics in the course of its ten-year history.
“I was only thinking of flag football initially,” states Henderson, “and hoping there was interest in the community.” In 2016, a basketball camp was added and in 2017 the soccer camp was added due too many requests. “My dream has evolved and continues to expand as more people get involved with Red Zone. I would also love to host Special Needs Camps so that Red Zone is inclusive to more and more children,” Henderson explains. “In addition, scholarships will enable financially-challenged families to participate in Red Zone Camps as well as any area high school sports program. Playing sports can motivate students to improve the kind of organizational skills needed to succeed academically.”
With over 15 qualified and well-experienced coaches and camp counselors, a child’s Red Zone experience is designed to be life-affirming.
“The greatest lesson I have personally learned from my experience in the classroom as a teacher and out on the field as a coach,” says Henderson, “is that academics and sports correlate. The take-away is sustainable through-out life’s experiences. We don’t want any barriers to that goal –financially or physically --if at all possible.”
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