New Avenue Program

The New Avenue Program in a specialized program that is committed to using athletics, education, and mentoring as a tool to motivate and encourage student-athletes within the inner-city neighborhoods of Houston, TX by providing an atmosphere that encourages fundamental growth in academics, teamwork, life-skills, and increased self-esteem. Student athletes will be able to take these skills and apply them to all of life’s challenges, showing our participants that there is a “new avenue” towards their dreams!

“Our students come from a variety of environments. These environments contain incalculable obstacles that prevent proper life-skill development. Instead of allowing the obstacles to be used as excuses, we encourage student-athletes to use these obstacles as motivation for success,” said Adam Barnes

To help overcome these obstacles, the New Avenue Program will provide support in four main areas: Academics, Athletic Skill-Set Training, Mentoring, and Physical Development. As professionals, we set goals for the student athlete to achieve and then work closely with each student-athlete to assure their attainment of goals through positive support, tutoring, and training.

Two nights per week student-athletes will participate in a 55-minute study session with a certified staff. Immediately following the session, each participate will go through a 65-minute sports specific workout conducted by a professionally experienced staff. It is our hope that all participants will not only grow academically, but athletically as well. There are NO teams associated with this program; we are simply trying to help develop our youth in a safe environment! Open to Boys and Girls, ages 8-18.