SOUL

SOUL Student-Athletes Organized to Understand Leadership
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To help at-risk youth obtain educational excellence, using basketball as pedagogy for youth development.

We accomplish this goal through the facilitation of academic workshops and one-on-one tutoring Students Organized to Understand Leadership (SOUL) is a sport based youth development program. The SOUL mission is to provide Washington area youth with athletic, academic, and cultural development opportunities - using basketball as an instrument to achieve the desired outcome. The program operates und

er the belief that sports-based programs must assume a greater role in youth development. Programs should better leverage the influence of coaches and mentors to support the hard work of parents and traditional educators in developing productive young adults. The high school dropout rate in our Nation’s capital is approximately 40% and this number disproportionately weighted along socioeconomic lines. It is without question that mentoring has significant positive effects on the alleviation of high school delinquency and dropout rates. SOUL’s mission is to not only to decrease the amount of dropouts amongst at-risk youth, but to increase the rate of subsequent enrollment into higher education amongst these youth, arming them with the tools and life skills needed to be leaders for their communities

08/22/2026
08/05/2026
08/03/2026

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was honored to collaborate with the Atlantic Coast Conference to facilitate a Title IX conversation with Lady Warriors...
07/31/2026

was honored to collaborate with the Atlantic Coast Conference to facilitate a Title IX conversation with Lady Warriors and sports administrators from ACC universities.

Let us toast to more Thursday Waterpark Days, more pizza, and more importantly more FUN!
07/17/2026

Let us toast to more Thursday Waterpark Days, more pizza, and more importantly more FUN!

We were beyond excited to have D.C. United visited SOUL Camp today! Our kids got some footwork.
07/07/2026

We were beyond excited to have D.C. United visited SOUL Camp today! Our kids got some footwork.

07/02/2026

Look who stopped by "The SOUL Camp" on day 3.

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SOUL Summer Camp has reached full capacity. Email development@soulprograms.org about our wait list.
06/11/2026

SOUL Summer Camp has reached full capacity. Email [email protected] about our wait list.

We are excited to announce will collaborate with the to engage approximately 100 institutional members, including 70 ...
05/05/2026

We are excited to announce will collaborate with the to engage approximately 100 institutional members, including 70 collegiate student-athletes.


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