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The Colorado Springs Sports Corporation's Youth Scholarship Program provides opportunities for at-promise and economically disadvantaged children in the Pikes Peak region to participate in summer sports camps or season-long sports programs at a minimal cost to the participants and their families. Program participants are able to choose from different youth organizations that offer a wide range of sports options.

Beginning in 2001, the Sports Corporation began placing a greater emphasis on season-long sport programs, as opposed to offering scholarships primarily to week-long camps. By doing so, the Sports Corporation is providing opportunities for children to participate in a sport for an extended period of time and assisting them in gaining greater exposure to their chosen sport.

Since its inception in 1998, the Sports Corporation's Youth Scholarship Program has helped send more than 2,500 local at-promise boys and girls to summer sport camps and season-long programs. Organizations such as the Police Athletic League, area YMCAs, the City of Colorado Springs Parks and Recreation Department, the U.S. Air Force Academy and Colorado College are among the many local entities that have participated in the program. In 2005, the Sports Corporation reached over 300 area youth, bringing the program's total to more than 2,500 children who have received scholarships.

The goal of the Sports Corporation's Youth Scholarship Program is to reach as many area at-promise and needy children as possible - children who, without the support of a scholarship, might not otherwise have an opportunity to participate in a sports program.