PPVCares = Pikes Peak Volleyball Club Cares
While some clubs exist only to make your son/daughter a better jump server and count how many tournaments he/she wins – we believe this can be done while also teaching life lessons that range well beyond the volleyball court.
With more than just lip service to these lessons, PPVC runs the following programs in support of developing your daughter/son as a whole person – and not just a volleyball player.
PPVC Scholar-Athlete Award
While watching an intense match in today’s competitive society, it has become easier for adults to forget that we are watching our kids play a game. It seems, at times, that we have forgotten our sons and daughters are students first and athletes second.
PPVC not only wants to remind our youth that they are students first, we want them to think of themselves as more than just students, we want every PPVC player to see themselves as a Scholar.
Giving more than just lip service to the idea that grades are very important (especially in today’s uncertain world), PPVC literally puts its money where its mouth is:
In the spirit of the World Scholar-Athlete Games (which Jeff had the honor of coaching three times), PPVC offers a Scholar-Athlete Award. Any PPVC player who earns “all A’s” for an entire season they are playing with our club, PPVC writes that player a check for $50!
“Bags of Hope”
Beginning with our 2008-09 season, PPVC began collecting last year’s backpacks as our players received their new one. The backpacks are collected along with gently used volleyball shirts and gear (shoes, knee pads, etc) as well as school supplies.
Everything is donated to Colorado Children of Promise, (www.cochildrenofpromise.com), an organization that provides backpacks and school supplies to youth who are in need right here in our own community.
Perspective is an amazing tool, and I know of no better lesson to teach, than there are always those less fortunate than yourself, and to help those in need is divine.
“I cursed that I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.”
PPVC is fighting Breast Cancer
It has been said that every American is affected, either directly or indirectly, by breast cancer.
During our 2008-09 season, PPVC had several family members begin a new fight with breast cancer. To help win the fight, PPVC incorporated the breast cancer ribbon into the design of our t-shirts which we wore all season long (not just on Dig Pink day) and donated a portion of those proceeds to the Susan G Komen for a Cure fund.
PPVC is going to beat MS
See our MS page for all the details about why and how PPVC is going to help beat Multiple Sclerosis…
Click here for our MS page