Our mission is to teach young people the importance of being competitive through sports and the value of academic excellence as a scholastic student athlete. Play It Forward Athletics is a non-profit 501 C3 amateur youth athletics, and mentoring organization that raises funds to provide disadvantage youth & student-athletes the opportunity to better their lives through sport & academics. The mission here at Play It Forward Athletics is to provide a positive, competitive and learning environment through sports and academic mentoring, and to produce the best student athletes possible. The academic element is called “P.L.A.Y.I.T” which stands for “Perseverance, Leverage & Academics for our Youth creates Integrity & Talent”. Our objective is to see that every young athlete who comes through our organization takes something back positive into the world. Our hope is that he or she comes back to us in the future to pay it forward to the next young student athlete.