Youth Programs offers a wide array of organized sports activities for youth to help them develop desirable physical skills and to mature emotionally and socially. The sports program provides opportunities for children to have contact with other youth, volunteer leaders, and youth program staff. It also provides opportunities for parents to socialize and to contribute to our Air Force community, by serving as volunteers in the youth program.

• Annual Sports Calendar
• Registration Form
• Parents Sports Handbook
• Coach Handbook
• Sports Physical
• Parents Code of Conduct
• Parent or Guardian Permit
• Insurance Waiver
• Participation Form
• Volunteers Form

Benefits of participating in youth sports are:

• Developing positive personal, social, and psychological skills
• Obtaining enjoyment and recreation
• Increased physical fitness levels
• Developing appropriate physical skills
• Enhancing the likelihood of participation in physical activities throughout life
• Learning rules and strategies of sports
• Developing a respect for the rules as facilitator of safe and fair competition
• Denouncing drug use as the way to recreate, escape from reality, or enhance performance
• Having contact with positive role models and interacting with adults
• Relating academic and other skills to sports performance
  

Charleston Air Force Base youth sports program follows the National Standards for Youth Sports developed by the National Alliance for Youth Sports. The program is offered to youth ages 5 to 18. We develop our programs consistent with the philosophy outlined in the below standards:

• Proper Sports Environment
• Substance Free Environment
• Parents as Active Role Models
• Programs Based on the Child's Well-Being
• Training
• Parental Commitment
• Safe Playing Situations
• Equal Play Opportunity

Our goal is to instill the participants with a spirit of teamwork and sportsmanship while acquiring basic skills and knowledge of the rules of different and individual sports.

Physical Examinations and Evaluations
Prior to participating in a sport, each child must have a physical examination. It is not necessary for each sport, except for the first sport played in that year.