On the campus of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Dennis Harris, camp director of the school’s National Youth Sports Program, labors for an entire year to put together a five-week summer program aimed at giving kids a summer camp experience on a college campus.
Fox 8’s Kenny Crumpton puts the spotlight on a wonderful program still going strong in Cleveland that combines fitness, fun and learning. The National Youth Sports Program Camp has called Case Western Reserve University ‘home base’ for 54 years.
The National Youth Sports Program, which once was a coalition of about 200 universities, was originally founded in 1968 to provide economically disadvantaged youth with access to sports and educational programs.
In 1968, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the NCAA founded National Youth Sports Programs across the country with the goal of providing educational and athletic opportunities for young people.
Travon Hines was 8 years old when he stepped onto Case Western Reserve University’s campus for the first time to attend a five-week summer camp that he thought, then, was just an excuse to play sports over the break.