FUTURE STAARS

WELCOME TO FUTURE STAARS

BUILDING STAARS.

BUILDING STAARS.

BUILDING FUTURES.

BUILDING FUTURES.

Future STAARS gives youth ages 6–18 a place to play, learn, train, grow, and belong through sports, mentorship, academic support, leadership development, and community.

Future STAARS gives youth ages 6–18 a place to play, learn, train, grow, and belong through sports, mentorship, academic support, leadership development, and community.

AGES 6–18

SPORTS • ACADEMICS • MENTORSHIP • LEADERSHIP

  • BASKETBALL • BASEBALL • GOLF • VOLLEYBALL • FITNESS • TUTORING • MENTORSHIP • LEADERSHIP • BASKETBALL • BASEBALL • GOLF • VOLLEYBALL • FITNESS • TUTORING • MENTORSHIP • LEADERSHIP

FUTURE STAARS

WELCOME TO FUTURE STAARS

BUILDING STAARS.

BUILDING FUTURES.

Future STAARS gives youth ages 6–18 a place to play, learn, train, grow, and belong through sports, mentorship, academic support, leadership development, and community.

AGES 6–18

SPORTS • ACADEMICS • MENTORSHIP • LEADERSHIP

  • BASKETBALL • BASEBALL • GOLF • VOLLEYBALL • FITNESS • TUTORING • MENTORSHIP • LEADERSHIP • BASKETBALL • BASEBALL • GOLF • VOLLEYBALL • FITNESS • TUTORING • MENTORSHIP • LEADERSHIP

✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ THIS IS FUTURE STAARS

MORE THAN A PLACE TO PLAY.

Future STAARS exists to give young people opportunities that extend far beyond sports. Here, athletics become a tool for building confidence, discipline, friendships, responsibility, and character. Education remains a priority. Mentorship matters. Accountability matters. And every child deserves a place where someone believes in what they can become.

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Sports

Build confidence, teamwork, discipline, fitness, and athletic ability.

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Sports

Build confidence, teamwork, discipline, fitness, and athletic ability.

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Mentorship

Connect young people with positive adults who encourage, guide, listen, and lead.

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Mentorship

Connect young people with positive adults who encourage, guide, listen, and lead.

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Academics

Provide tutoring, homework assistance, resources, and accountability because education comes first.

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Academics

Provide tutoring, homework assistance, resources, and accountability because education comes first.

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Leadership

Develop respectful, responsible, confident young people prepared for the future.

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Leadership

Develop respectful, responsible, confident young people prepared for the future.

FIND YOUR SPORT

PLAY. TRAIN. COMPETE. GROW.

PLAY. TRAIN. COMPETE. GROW.

Basketball

Development, clinics, shooting, ball handling, conditioning, teamwork, open gym, and training.

Explore Basketball

Baseball & Batting Cages

Indoor batting cages and baseball or softball development focused on hitting, coordination, fundamentals, and confidence.

Explore Baseball

Golf Simulators

Modern simulator technology, instruction, practice, and performance tracking for new and developing players.

Explore Golf

Volleyball

Serving, passing, setting, hitting, movement, teamwork, communication, and game development.

Explore Volleyball

Athletic Training

Age-appropriate strength, conditioning, agility, mobility, endurance, and performance training.

Explore Training

Damian, age 13

Where the Future STAARS story began.

✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ THE STORY BEHIND FUTURE STAARS

ONE JOURNEY.

A FUTURE FOR THOUSANDS.

Future STAARS was born from lived experience. Growing up in foster care, our founder experienced many of the challenges thousands of young people continue to face today—the uncertainty of what comes next, inconsistent guidance, and obstacles that many children should never have to navigate alone.

Along the way, he discovered how powerful one caring person can be: a mentor, a coach, a teacher, an opportunity, a community willing to believe in you. Those experiences became the foundation of Future STAARS.

What began as one person’s dream has grown into a mission to give young people access to sports, mentorship, education, leadership opportunities, facilities, and support systems that can help change the direction of their lives.

Because every child deserves a chance. Every child deserves guidance. Every child deserves an opportunity. And every child deserves someone who believes in them.

OUR MISSION

EVERY CHILD DESERVES THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCOVER WHAT THEY’RE CAPABLE OF.

EVERY CHILD DESERVES THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCOVER WHAT THEY’RE CAPABLE OF.

EVERY CHILD DESERVES THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCOVER WHAT THEY’RE CAPABLE OF.

Future STAARS exists to provide youth with access to sports, mentorship, academic support, leadership development, and positive opportunities that inspire confidence, character, and lifelong success. Founded on the belief that every child deserves guidance, encouragement, and a place to belong, we create safe environments where young people can grow and discover their full potential regardless of their circumstances.

Through athletics, mentorship, education, and community support, Future STAARS empowers the next generation of leaders—both on and off the field of play.

BELIEVE.

BELIEVE.

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THE STAARS STANDARD

What it means to be a Future STAAR.

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Sportsmanship

Compete with character. Respect teammates, coaches, opponents, teachers, and yourself.

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Sportsmanship

Compete with character. Respect teammates, coaches, opponents, teachers, and yourself.

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Training

Show up. Put in the work. Develop your body, skills, confidence, and discipline.

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Training

Show up. Put in the work. Develop your body, skills, confidence, and discipline.

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Academics

Education comes first. What happens in the classroom matters as much as what happens on the court.

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Academics

Education comes first. What happens in the classroom matters as much as what happens on the court.

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Accountability

Own your grades, attendance, effort, behavior, decisions, and actions.

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Accountability

Own your grades, attendance, effort, behavior, decisions, and actions.

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Respect

Respect yourself, your family, your school, your teammates, coaches, facility, and community.

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Respect

Respect yourself, your family, your school, your teammates, coaches, facility, and community.

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Success

Set goals, recognize progress, overcome setbacks, and keep becoming the best version of yourself.

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Success

Set goals, recognize progress, overcome setbacks, and keep becoming the best version of yourself.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT.

YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO GROW.

YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO GROW.

That’s STAAR-level success.

STUDENT FIRST. ATHLETE SECOND.

STUDENT FIRST. ATHLETE SECOND.

YOUR JERSEY DOESN’T EXCUSE YOUR REPORT CARD.

Future STAARS believes athletics and academics should support one another. Students participating in our programs are expected to take their education seriously.

• Tutoring

• Homework support

• Academic mentoring

• Study space

• Goal setting

• Progress support

• School accountability

• Encouragement

WE CELEBRATE GREAT GAMES.

WE CELEBRATE IMPROVED GRADES TOO.

WE EXPECT MORE BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THEY CAN DO MORE.

ACCOUNTABILITY IS PART OF THE PROGRAM.

ACCOUNTABILITY IS PART OF THE PROGRAM.

Future STAARS works alongside parents, guardians, educators, mentors, and coaches to help participating youth remain accountable for their education, behavior, attendance, effort, and personal development. Where appropriate and with required parent or guardian authorization, Future STAARS may communicate with a student’s school or teachers to better understand academic progress and determine where additional support may be helpful.

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EXPECTATIONS

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CHECK-IN

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SUPPORT

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IMPROVEMENT

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CELEBRATION

Accountability isn’t about waiting for a child to fail. It’s about noticing when they need help before they do.

✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ OUR PROMISE

MORE THAN A SPORTS FACILITY.

A HOME AWAY FROM HOME.

We are creating a place where young people are encouraged, challenged, supported, and believed in—a place where effort, education, respect, character, and every child matter.

EVERY CHILD WHO WALKS THROUGH OUR DOORS WILL KNOW THAT THEY MATTER.

✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ OUR PROMISE

MORE THAN A SPORTS FACILITY.

A HOME AWAY FROM HOME.

We are creating a place where young people are encouraged, challenged, supported, and believed in—a place where effort, education, respect, character, and every child matter.

EVERY CHILD WHO WALKS THROUGH OUR DOORS WILL KNOW THAT THEY MATTER.

SUPPORTING THE WHOLE CHILD

CARE THAT EXTENDS BEYOND THE GAME.

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Safe Space

A structured environment where young people can learn, participate, and belong.

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Safe Space

A structured environment where young people can learn, participate, and belong.

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Personal Wellness

Appropriate hygiene, changing, and shower facilities when needed so youth can participate with dignity and confidence.

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Personal Wellness

Appropriate hygiene, changing, and shower facilities when needed so youth can participate with dignity and confidence.

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Mentorship

Positive adults who listen, encourage, guide, and hold young people accountable.

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Mentorship

Positive adults who listen, encourage, guide, and hold young people accountable.

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Health & Fitness

Movement, athletic development, healthy habits, confidence, and wellness.

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Health & Fitness

Movement, athletic development, healthy habits, confidence, and wellness.

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Community

Relationships and opportunities that extend beyond the facility.

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Community

Relationships and opportunities that extend beyond the facility.

AGES 6–18

THERE’S A PLACE FOR EVERY FUTURE STAAR.

AGES 6–9

AGES 10–12

AGES 13–15

AGES 16–18

DISCOVER. PLAY. BELONG.

Discover sports, build confidence, learn teamwork, develop friendships, and create positive habits.

6–9

AGES 6–9

AGES 10–12

AGES 13–15

AGES 16–18

DISCOVER. PLAY. BELONG.

Discover sports, build confidence, learn teamwork, develop friendships, and create positive habits.

AGES 6–9

AGES 10–12

AGES 13–15

AGES 16–18

DISCOVER. PLAY. BELONG.

Discover sports, build confidence, learn teamwork, develop friendships, and create positive habits.

6–9

✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS

BRING YOUR STUDENTS TO FUTURE STAARS.

Future STAARS welcomes schools, athletic teams, coaches, youth organizations, nonprofits, park districts, and community programs looking for additional opportunities and spaces for their students.

Basketball & Volleyball

Batting Cages & Golf

Team Practices & Training

Camps & Clinics

Tutoring & Academic Programs

Youth Events & Enrichment

YOUR TEAM. OUR SPACE. MORE OPPORTUNITY.

Flexible partnerships for schools and community organizations.

EFFORT • GROWTH • CHARACTER • RESPONSIBILITY • IMPROVEMENT

CELEBRATING OUR STAARS

Future STAARS celebrates more than wins and points. We recognize the young people who keep showing up, helping others, improving their habits, and growing into leaders.

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STAAR of the Month

Recognizing consistent effort, character, growth, and positive influence.

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STAAR of the Month

Recognizing consistent effort, character, growth, and positive influence.

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Academic Achievement

Celebrating strong classroom habits, focus, progress, and performance.

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Academic Achievement

Celebrating strong classroom habits, focus, progress, and performance.

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Most Improved

Honoring persistence, progress, and the willingness to keep growing.

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Most Improved

Honoring persistence, progress, and the willingness to keep growing.

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Athletic Achievement

Recognizing skill development, teamwork, discipline, and competitive character.

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Athletic Achievement

Recognizing skill development, teamwork, discipline, and competitive character.

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Character Award

Celebrating respect, kindness, responsibility, and service to others.

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Character Award

Celebrating respect, kindness, responsibility, and service to others.

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Leadership Award

Honoring young people who guide by example and bring others forward.

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Leadership Award

Honoring young people who guide by example and bring others forward.

UPCOMING EVENTS

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT FUTURE STAARS?

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT FUTURE STAARS?

Ages 13–18

Open Gym Night

A supervised evening for movement, friendly competition, and community.

6:00 PM–8:00 PM

Open Gym

Coming Soon

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spots available

Ages 11–16

Volleyball Youth Training Camp

Serving, passing, setting, movement, communication, and game development.

5:00 PM–7:00 PM

Volleyball

Coming Soon

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spots available

THE FUTURE STAARS FACILITY

BUILT FOR WHAT’S NEXT.

BASKETBALL COURT

TRAINING SPACE

ACADEMIC SUPPORT

COMMUNITY IMPACT

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YOUTH SERVED

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PROGRAM HOURS

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COMMUNITY PARTNERS

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ACADEMIC SUPPORT HOURS

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READY TO BECOME A FUTURE STAAR?

READY TO BECOME A FUTURE STAAR?

Whether you’re looking for a place to compete, train, study, grow, make friends, find mentors, or discover something new—there’s a place for you here.

Whether you’re looking for a place to compete, train, study, grow, make friends, find mentors, or discover something new—there’s a place for you here.

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Help Create the Next Opportunity.

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Help Create the Next Opportunity.

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Help Create the Next Opportunity.