Meet our rockstar coach, Melanie! Melanie, or Coach Mel, to her students, is spending her year of service at Chappell Elementary School, a longtime partner of Playworks Illinois. Coach Mel is…
https://www.playworks.org/illinois/2018/03/29/meet-americorps-coach-mel/
Coach Nick is a first year Playworks AmeriCorps member at the Orchard Gardens K-8 School in Roxbury. Over the course of the school year, Coach Nick has proven to be…
https://www.playworks.org/new-england/2015/05/14/coach-nick-makes-excellent-happen/
On February 22, 2017, over 160 Junior Coaches in 11 Santa Ana Unified Playworks partner schools came together at the Long Beach City College for their Leadership Retreat. The…
Playworks’co-ed volleyball leagues came to a close after five awesome weeks where fourth and fifth grade players bumped it, set it, spiked it—because that’s the way they like it! Cheers rang out…
https://www.playworks.org/pacific-northwest/2014/04/21/volleyball-season-draws-to-thrilling-close-2/
The Red Sox Foundation visited the Patrick J. Kennedy School on December 1 during the final Play Ball event of its Reviving Baseball and Softball in Inner Cities seasonal youth…
https://eastietimes.com/2022/12/14/red-sox-foundation-visits-the-p-j-kennedy-school/
Play brings people together, and Seattle’s Big Day of Play was proof. We were honored to join Seattle Parks and Recreation as a Supporting Sponsor of the 2025 Big Day…
https://www.playworks.org/pacific-northwest/2025/09/02/playworks-joins-seattles-big-day-of-play/
Coach MJ is a proud Minnesota native, born and bred in South Minneapolis. Before joining the Playworks family for the start of the 2013-14 school year, Coach MJ was working with the YMCA. For the past…
https://www.playworks.org/minnesota/2015/03/25/meet-coach-mj/
Name: Chevy Robinson. School: Dr. George Washington Carver Academy of Math and Science Favorite Recess Game: My all time favorite recess game is traditional kickball. As a youngster, I was all…
https://www.playworks.org/wisconsin/2012/11/21/meet-coach-chevy/
I have a Junior Coach who loves kickball. Absolutely adores it. He spends every recess—twice a day—fielding, kicking, and running the bases. If Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours theory is true,…
https://www.playworks.org/northern-california/2015/11/09/kindergarten-kickball/
