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Sports, Fitness & Recreation

 

This area teaches fitness, positive leisure time usage, stress management skills, social skills and environmental appreciation.

Outdoor Club
Outdoor Club helps members understand and experience nature in Central Oregon. Members learn map and compass skills, outdoor safety, proper trip planning and participate in outdoor excursions.  

NIKE Daily Challenges
NIKE Daily Challenges is a popular series of non-competitive, yet challenging programs. The Jackie Joyner-Kersee Challenge helps girls build new skills via a fun fitness circuit. The Michael Jordan Invent-A-Sport Challenge encourages creativity and fitness, allowing youngsters to create their own game or sport, illustrate and demonstrate the activity and play with peers. In the Ken Griffey Jr. Home Run Challenge, members build basic motor skills through throwing, catching and running games. The Dawn Staley Basketball Challenge offers instruction and practice in dribbling, assisting and shooting. The Jump Rope Challenge improves strength, skills and endurance as participants jump "against the clock."

Fitness Authority
FITNESS AUTHORITY®, a new small-group program sponsored by The Sports Authority, Inc., promotes fitness in all youth. FITNESS AUTHORITY provides a fun-filled, motivating fitness experience for members. Weekly sessions cover every aspect of fitness, drawing upon themes of sports culture and history, self-esteem, nutrition and physical fitness. The annual FITNESS AUTHORITY Club-Wide Pentathlon competition allows Club members of all ages to demonstrate and test their fitness levels.

Nutrition Night
Teaches members how to plan and prepare healthy meals, as well as table manners, table setting and clean up.

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