6B
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2006
YOUTH SPORTS (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
Vanessa Pearson/KANSAN
Jaci Rooney, Kansas City, Mo., senior, instructs a player where to go on the court during Saturday's youth basketball game. Rooney and Katie Maloney, Overland Park playground, couple a half of hours on Wednesday with practice and then a couple of hours on Saturdays for the games.
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She wanted to develop positive relationships with young people and see the effects firsthand of her volunteerism in Lawrence.
"I was sick of doing community service where I didn't feel like I was affecting anyone," Maloney said. "This was a better way to affect individuals. My favorite parts are during games when one of the kids
makes an awesome play or a basket, just seeing them do that is awesome."
There's a nationwide push to get more young adults involved in positive relationships with children as Maloney has.
Maloney and Rooney aren't the only ones developing beneficial relationships. Peter Simonsen, Overland Park senior, and Sarah Whisler, Hutchinson sophomore, are coaches for the Lawrence Aquahawks swim league. Their volunteerism has given them many chances to spend one-
"They're just really fun and they're nice to me."
"I was sick of doing community service where I didn't feel like I was affecting anyone."
Organizations like the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation and Teach for America are all promoting the influence of young, college educated people in the lives of children. A 2005 report from MENTOR, a network of state and local mentoring partnerships, showed a 19 percent increase in formal mentoring relationships since 2002. Quinton Hamm, a pint-sized seven-year-old on Maloney and Rooney's team, said their patient guidance had definitely made a difference for him. Hamm said he looked forward to games and practices with his coaches.
KATIE MALONEY Overland Park junior
"They're cool," Hamm said
on-one time helping children to perfect their athleticism and sportsmanship.
Both got involved in the program after swimming in high school and, though they are paid for some of their work,
Parks and Recreation also uses student volunteer coaches for indoor soccer teams during the late winter months and softball and baseball teams during the summer. Ice said he had a difficult time recruiting as many students for the spring and summer programs because many students headed home or vacationed during that time.
One challenge Maloney said she had to overcome was learning to handle overzealous referees and parents.
All of the student coaches said they didn't have any plans to stop coaching anytime soon. Ice said he hoped to continue to recruit more KU students to the coaching program, not just through the holiday season.
both spend countless hours provuing support to young swimmers each week.
"It's kind of hard dealing with parents sometimes," Maloney said. "Most of the time parents coach instead of a younger person so it is a challenge to have someone younger coaching."
"I think it is something kind of unique," Simonsen said. "It gives me a chance to be a leader besides doing some other meaningless job. I really like it. It is kind of nice to be around kids when you are a college student and you are around college people all the time."
Once Whisler shuts her books she goes to the pool to take on the role of teacher. She said at times it was hard to juggle both of her personas.
"It has gotten in the way of some homework, especially when I've had
to go to swim meets early in the morning on the weekends."
The winter youth basketball league ends Dec. 16. More information and volunteer coaching applications can be found at www.lprd.org.
Kansan staff writer Courtney Hagen can be contacted at chagen@ kansan.com.
Edited by Nicole Kelley
Katie Maloney, Overland Park junior, talks to members of the team she coaches Saturday at the East Lawrence Recreation Center, 1245 E. 15th St. Maloney has been coaching this team for two months and said it was fun to be involved and to help out. She coaches to earn community service hours for her sorority, Alpha Gamma Delta.
Vanessa Pearson/KANSAN
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