For the third year, and the second in Greenwich, the Linda W. Daniel Foundation’s Kicking Cancer Youth Soccer Camp will be back at Cos Cob Park on Saturday, June 25.
Kicking Cancer is a non-profit camp dedicated to teaching children the game of soccer, the benefits of being active and educating parents on ways to help prevent cancer. Thanks to our generous sponsors, proceeds from registration and any funds raised will be donated to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Donations for the camp are $30. Children ages three- to 12-years-old can participate and the clinic will be held from 9:15 to 10:45 a.m.
Check-ins will start a half-hour earlier.
The Linda W. Daniel Foundation was founded on the belief that the end of cancer begins with prevention. Instead of focusing on what we don’t have, a cure, we help people utilize what we already know and help bring the fight to cancer. LWDF is a 501(c)(3) under federal tax guidelines.
Each kicker will be provided with coaching and training from the likes of Filipo Caro, who has a web site at Filipocaro.com. In addition, the Greenwich High School girl’s varsity soccer team, as well as two former Women’s Professional Soccer League’s Read Salt Lake women’s soccer players.
Kickers will be in small groups and led through warm-ups and fun drills that will introduce them to soccer and basic skills. Caro incorporates a lot of games and activities (including non-soccer related) into his camps which will be great for younger children who may not be interested in soccer and have a shorter attention span.
Senior kickers will focus on building proper technique and learn drills to improve their existing ball skills.
In addition to the camp, the Linda W. Daniel Foundation wants people to get up and move for a good cause.
For each lap people complete around Cos Cob park (1/2-mile loop), people can earn a raffle ticket and a chance to win a gift card from Green & Tonic, Rosie’s Frozen Yogurt, The Granola Bar and other great local places.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is the world’s oldest and largest private institution devoted to prevention, patient care, research and education in cancer. Its scientists and clinicians generate innovative approaches to better understand, diagnose and treat cancer.
The Center’s specialists are leaders in biomedical research and in translating the latest research to advance the standard of cancer care worldwide. For more information, visit Mskcc.org.
To register online, visit Lindawdanielfoundation.org.
