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2015-2016 Annual Report Squashbusters’ Mission Is to Challenge and Nurture Urban Youth — As Students, Athletes 2015-2016 ANNUAL REPORT SQUASHBUSTERS’ MISSION IS TO CHALLENGE AND NURTURE URBAN YOUTH — AS STUDENTS, ATHLETES AND CITIZENS — SO THAT THEY To our SQB family, RECOGNIZE AND FULFILL THEIR For many years, squash has kept my family and me fit, taught FULLEST POTENTIAL IN LIFE. us grit and perseverance, and connected us to a network of wonderful people through practice and competitive play. I’ve always known the sport’s potential to do the same for others, SQUASHBUSTERS WAS FOUNDED and since joining the SquashBusters Board in 2008, the program’s incredible impact on its students and their families IN 1996 AS THE COUNTRY’S FIRST has been even greater than I imagined. Over the past 20 URBAN SQUASH AND EDUCATION years, SQB students have consistently graduated high school and matriculated to college at a dramatically higher rate than PROGRAM. ITS PIONEERS WERE 24 their peers, with 99% of program graduates enrolling in college and 78% graduating within six years. In 2015-2016, MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM we continued this success and celebrated a growing program, CAMBRIDGE AND BOSTON. new partnerships, and record-setting events. In 2015-2016, SquashBusters served more young people from Boston and Lawrence than ever before, ending the year with over 200 middle and high school students across both cities. While our tried and true program in Boston has held steady, changing the lives of students from 7th through 12th grade, John, right, with two other loyal friends of SQB: our program in Lawrence continues to grow, one grade at Thierry Lincou, center and Andy Goldfarb, left a time. There were 60 SQB alumni in college in 2015-2016, supported by a newly-implemented alumni success program which provided them with scholarship opportunities, There has been so much to celebrate over these past professional development and career-exploration activities. 12 months, but perhaps nothing is more exciting than our While we continue to search for a permanent home for our decision to cross state lines and take SquashBusters to Lawrence program, our partnerships with Brooks School Providence. We’ve teamed up with Moses Brown School and and Phillips Academy remain strong, as they lend us their have plans to build a joint-use squash facility that will house courts, classrooms, and student volunteers. In Boston, we a 100-student SquashBusters program modeled after its increased our pool of student recruits by adding the Lee and predecessors in Massachusetts. We can’t wait to fill the space Hernandez middle schools, as well as Codman Academy, as with the same energy, love, and opportunity you’ll find when partners. We also teamed up with Tutors for All in 2015- setting foot inside our spaces in Boston and Lawrence. 2016, bringing an individual tutor to each and every SQB As I look back and reflect on this past year, I can’t help Boston 8th grader in an effort to improve their literacy and but feel overwhelmed by the support, trust, and kindness numeracy skills as they prepared to enter the city’s most we have received from this incredible network. From our challenging high schools. And for the first time, SQB Boston students and their families, to our partners, volunteers, and students paired up with squash mentors, receiving one-on- donors — we could not possibly have come this far without one coaching outside of regular practice from some of the any of you. To our outstanding staff, who give unconditionally top players and pros at squash clubs across the city. to our students and their success, we are truly grateful. Students weren’t the only ones making great gains in 2015- Thank you all so much for making all of what you see 2016; the entire SquashBusters community came together throughout the pages of this book possible. in a big way as well. In just its third year, the annual SQB With sincere gratitude, Lawrence MashUp raised more than ever, bringing in over $250,000 to support our students up north. In May, the MFS SquashBusters Derby shattered the 2015 fundraising total by bringing in over $1.2 million for the program — more than half of our total income for the year. We continue to be in awe of our incredibly generous and giving network of players, John Blasberg, squash professionals, and supporters who make these events Chairman, SquashBusters Board of Directors so successful. Partner, Bain & Company SQUASHBUSTERS FY16 : LETTER 1 WHO WE ARE SquashBusters’ young people commit to spend 100 days every year learning and studying, mastering squash, and serving others in need. SQUASHBUSTERS IS They do these things, with courage and conviction, consistently from the start of middle AN URBAN YOUTH school until the day they graduate high school. PROGRAM 100% Such relentless perseverance almost always leads to college enrollment and, then again, DEDICATED TO 80% of the time to college graduation. CHANGING THE SquashBusters is strengthened by partnerships with world-class educational institutions like LIVES OF YOUNG Northeastern University, Brooks School and Phillips Academy, where our programs take PEOPLE IN BOSTON place, and Boston and Lawrence Public Schools, AND LAWRENCE from where our students are recruited. We are humbled as well by the love, loyalty and hard work of hundreds of volunteers from every walk of life, as well as by the enduring commitment and counsel of our students’ families, without whom no meaningful youth program can exist. SQB FY16 : Program Overview LOCATIONS 2 Boston and Lawrence, MA FOUNDED 202 1996 students served, grades 6-12 80% qualify for free/reduced lunch program graduates 157 staff 22 18 full time, 4 part time 60 alumni in college We are one team that sticks together. We are “ one family that cares for each other. We are one 7SquashBusters alumni on staff STUDENT community that works together. 51% DEMOGRAPHICS ” 31% + Kimberlyn Jones : SquashBusters ’18 8% 6% volunteers John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science 4% 100 Hispanic African Asian Other White American 2 SQUASHBUSTERS FY16 : WHO WE ARE SQUASHBUSTERS FY16 : WHO WE ARE 3 SQB FY16 : Boston SQB FY16 : Lawrence FOUNDED FOUNDED 2012 1996 students 67 grades 6-10 students 10 program staff STUDENT LOCATION 135 grades 7-12 87% DEMOGRAPHICS Courts and classrooms at Brooks School and Phillips Academy 5% STUDENT LOCATION 4% 4% Badger and Rosen SquashBusters Center at LPS SCHOOL PARTNERS 47% DEMOGRAPHICS Northeastern University Hispanic Other Asian White 34% • Arlington Middle School 10% 5% 4% • Emily G. Wetherbee School BPS SCHOOL PARTNERS • Lawrence High School African Hispanic Asian Other White • Timilty Middle School American • Joseph Lee K-8 School • Rafael Hernandez School • John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science • Codman Academy Charter Public School 5 program staff VICKY FLAMENCO Eighteen years since she first stepped on the court as a Looking back on her time in the program, Vicky credits ACADEMIC COORDINATOR, SQUASHBUSTERS LAWRENCE SquashBusters student, Vicky Flamenco continues to personify SquashBusters for opening the door to countless opportunities SQUASHBUSTERS ’06 the values at the core of the SquashBusters program. Through she wouldn’t have sought out on her own. College visits hard work, she stuck with squash even though she found it exposed her to schools she wanted to attend, community Joining SquashBusters was the best decision I ever challenging and unfamiliar; a committed team member, she service projects taught her the rewards of helping others “ appreciated the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of her in need, and squash competitions allowed her to travel the made and shaped me into the person I am today. fellow students; and through respect and effort, she built loving country and connect with other kids her age, many of whom What I want for my students is to take every and supportive relationships with the staff. So it’s no surprise became lifelong friends. As an Academic Coordinator, the one- experience, every exposure to something new, as that after college, Vicky returned to give back to the program, on-one and small group time she shares with students allows joining the staff at SquashBusters Lawrence as an Academic her to hear their stories and share her own, while helping them an opportunity to grow as individuals and positively Coordinator. She brings a unique perspective to this role: a to make the most of the opportunity they have in front of them. shape their futures. firsthand understanding of many of the experiences of the ” current students. WHAT WE DO THE SQUASHBUSTERS PROGRAM IS AN Day in and day out, for 6-7 straight years, every UNBELIEVABLY student plays squash, exercises and studies. DEMANDING, They also compete in tournaments, volunteer in their communities, form lifelong friendships, SUPPORTIVE AND engage with mentors, travel, and get summer jobs. Along the way, every student builds LONG-LASTING tremendous confidence, learns how to take ADVENTURE IN risks and push through setbacks, sets concrete goals, and dreams big. The grand prize for SQUASH, FITNESS, embarking upon and completing the journey? COMMUNITY College success. Enduring health. Real character SERVICE AND development. EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY The Three Pillars of SquashBusters Enroll in and successfully complete 1 COLLEGE 2 Using squash as a vehicle to engage students, “ SquashBusters seeks to develop and grow the whole young person through support, guidance, and exposure.” Gert Sweeney, Director of Instruction : Joseph Lee K-8 School, SQB Partner Understand and 3 Develop a embrace life-long deep sense of habits of CHARACTER HEALTH and personal and
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