An article providing an overview of the background and goals of Project Coach".

Focusing on 4th-year veteran youth coach, Loeb Rosario, this newspaper article gives a brief overview, along with testimony from Loeb, who talks about his desire to one day be "under the big lights, making the big decision to win the game".

Exemplifying her tremendous efforts in Project Coach during 2010, this newspaper article describes many of the ways in which Marie Wallace (Smith '11) has immersed herself in helping the program, providing "an intersection that...has changed Wallace's life...who now intends to pursue a career helping inner-city youths".

Yuna Kim (Smith '13) discusses the impact of Project Coach both within the large context of the North End community in Springfield, and the relations that have been formed between Smith College graduate and undergraduate students, and the youth coaches in PC. Project Coach has created a program that empowers "an abundance of teenage youth willing to create change".

In a follow-up article run by the Boston Globe, Project Coach Fellows receive praise from youth participants in Lawrence, MA, who describe how they "learned about what kind of attitude (they) need to have, and how to keep your cool working with kids...they taught us so much".

Over the summer of 2010, Project Coach collaborated with Ellen Minzner and The Lawrence Community Boathouse to launch a program that "teaches high school kids how to be good leaders (and) how to reach a goal, while keeping the kids active".

One of PC's many successful campus visits took place in February 2008, when a group of youth and college coaches attended a special basketball clinic which "had an energy and enthusiasm that affected both groups", courtesy of the Amherst College Men's Team, and Head Coach Dave Hixson.

Thoughtful insight into the impact that PC has on the lives of its youth coaches, from the responsibility that it has taught them to the fact that they "do better in school...take things from the program...and are not just hanging out in the streets".

A newspaper article focused on translating a love for sport into a tool for positive youth development through PC, so that adolescents are "not problems in their communities, they're assets".