The "District Dribble" initiative will distribute nearly 30,000 basketballs to DC Public Schools students from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade. Organized by Monumental Sports & Entertainment, this project aims to promote sports, community involvement, and lifelong physical activity. Significant logistical challenges arose, such as needing to inflate the basketballs, which 300 volunteers helped with at Capital One Arena. Leaders emphasized the role of sports in enhancing physical, mental, and emotional health while positively impacting academic performance.
We've got to blow up the basketballs, if you can believe it.
Sports can positively impact students, whether it's physical health, mental health, emotional health, social skills, and then, most importantly, academically as well.
We want people to have the right perspective about sports-more about teamwork, more about coachability, more about discipline.
I slept with my first basketball under my pillow, which was given to me by a coach.
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