Anderson Monarchs

The Anderson Monarchs provide high quality team sports opportunities to over 400 youth ages 5-18 annually. We believe that youth sports in America too often exclude the youth and families who would most benefit from participation. We use our program to provide access to opportunity, specifically in the sports of baseball, soccer, and basketball. Our model for changing lives and changing youth sports is simple: We start young, we offer multiple sports, we engage youth year-round, and we work with them through high school and beyond. Change happens over decades, not overnight. We provide a truly accessible youth sports program: where parents don't have to sacrifice financially so their children can play a game; where kids look around and see other players on their team who look like them; where coaches understand and respect where their players come from; where each player is a person first, and an athlete second. We believe it is a healthier, more just model of youth sports. Oh, and we also succeed at a very high rate. Whatever you want to measure - winning on the field; players graduating from high school; kids getting into and out of college; developing college athletes - we do it as well if not better than anyone else out there. Established in 1995, the Anderson Monarchs provide team sports opportunities to over 400 youth ages 5-18 annually. We invest in youth at a young age, provide them with a year-round, multi-sport program, and build in educational and life skills support along the way. We believe youth sports should be high quality, low or no cost, safe, and welcoming. We also believe they should be challenging, structured, competitive, and intense. By providing youth with all these things in a culture that values and promotes trust, decision making, mutual support, and accountability, we help develop young people who go on to do amazing things as athletes, students, and leaders in their communities.