Our interactive programs will prepare our young athletes to meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood and achieve his or her full potential. Elev8’s youth development workshops is promoted through our activities and experiences that are detailed below focusing on youth development in social, ethical, emotional, physical, and cognitive competencies.

Today’s teens and tweens are connected to one another, and to the world, via digital technology. While today’s tweens and teens may be more digitally savvy than their parents, their lack of maturity and life experience can quickly get them into trouble with these new social venues. We will continuously discuss digital boundaries and social media responsibility and will help them navigate properly through all these interactive channels.

Educate them on the “mental game" challenges and strategies to better equip and instill confidence. Athletes who have high levels of self-confidence end up in the winner's circle. We want our athletes to feel fully confident at game time and confident in themselves without a ball in their hands. Communicate and talk with each athlete on ways to find what each of their identity is outside of sports. Discuss and explain the importance of other passions and interests outside of basketball that could lead to success after their playing career is over.. We will offers a series of guidelines that focus on positive transitions to discover interests beyond basketball.

Each professional will discuss their individual real life experiences both as an athlete and personal challenges throughout school in the pros, and normal day to day life situations. We will focus on educating, preparation and providing our athletes with the proper tools to succeed at their current level on up through High School. Weekly exercises will be performed that are tailored and relevant to the athlete's current situations with basketball and school. The athletes will set goals at the beginning of each season. They will learn about goal setting and why it is important to plan in advance that is going to help develop daily habits to accomplish their goals. Evaluation sheets will be given to each athlete and reviewed at the end of each season. Both player and coach will fill out questionnaire and thoroughly discussed with the player and parents.

Detailed techniques will be printed in booklets, and videos will be produced and handed out to the players showing and explaining the most effective techniques for quick success. These lessons and techniques can be used as extra workouts outside of practice giving our players the opportunity to work on their individual weaknesses.

Our nutrition education program is specifically developed for our athletes empowering them to make smart food choices. They will give our athletes the knowledge and skills they need to make informed decisions about what they eat and drink. We will analyzing each player's diets and coach them on the most valuable nutrients, which will help our young athletes play to the best of their competitive ability.

Professional Athletes, Personal Trainers and Teachers will come to speak and educate our young athletes on successful routines such as; foundation training, speed-strength and power training, plyometrics, sports loading, speed endurance training, sprinting form and technique and sprint-assisted training. Our program design includes planning, periodization, individual and team schedules, and workouts in the preseason, in-season, and postseason periods.

Speed and agility training drills are designed to work your entire body, core muscles, as well as the tendons in your body. It is important to train at a level that is equal to your game intensity to help increase your performance and to minimize injury Injury prevention and recovery go along with speed and agility training. We will show our players how to foam roll and stretch. We will also explain when the proper time is to do these recovery exercises. Children’s Yoga will be implemented once a month. This will be a fun activity that parents and children can do together.

Our young athletes will focus on giving back, this is where we will give and nothing happens(we will teach them what it is to give without expectation of anything in return). No benefits for us(We are not seeking recognition, or praise.), no recognition gets sent our way( . Our biggest and sole reward is the realization that we have made a positive change in someone or some family’s life. No matter how tough we think our life is there’s always someone who has to face challenges that are even tougher than ours. During each season Elev8 will choose a community service activity that they will all do together. This is our opportunity to bond thru giving back. “When we make service work a normal part of our lives we don’t simply teach our children strong core values, we demonstrate these values in action”

In the future we will offer a tutoring services as a part of the program. Prior to practices or after practices specific volunteers will work with our young athletes who need additional assistance with their school's curriculum We will work with individual or pairs of students Tutors will be Parents, High School and/or College Students who will volunteer their time.

Habitat for Humanity • Boys and Girls Club fundraisers • Volunteer at Soup Kitchens (not only during the holidays) • Standup for Kids Programs • Solutions for Change • Canine Companions for Independence

Evelv8 realizes that sports can help a child's development along in many positive ways. This is why we have created “Motiv8” scholarship program that will award through our donation and fundraising program. We will offer up to two scholarship awards per season to low income families. We realize that not every youth athlete has an equal opportunity to learn and play at a higher level, this is why we will created “Motiv8”.