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Teresa Serna joined Milwaukee SCORES in third grade searching for a team of her own. She found mentors who believed in her potential and opportunities that expanded what felt possible. Today, she's a mental health provider and advocate ensuring the next generation has access to the same life-changing programming.

New Balance Foundation (NBF) has granted a total of $300,000 in support of the expansion of the SCORES Network.

SCORES’ founder, Julie Kennedy, reflects on the Network’s origin story and growth as a grassroots legacy of the 1994 World Cup. When Julie Kennedy founded the SCORES Network , she wasn’t long out of the K-12 education system herself. At 21, the young Canadian had just completed a degree in International Affairs at Georgetown University and was serving as a Teach for America Fellow at Marie Reed Elementary in Washington, DC. The creation of her free, after-school soccer, poetry, and...