Thank you for visiting the Latino Sports Outreach (LSO) website. LSO provides scholarships that enable talented, promising and underprivileged Latino youth to participate in advanced athletic programs such as local and regional youth competitive soccer leagues. These scholarships are granted not only to facilitate youth participation in family and community activities, but to build character, discipline, commitment and responsibility. These are skills that can be transferred from the athletic field to the classroom, to a career and that prepare young people to compete successfully in life. In 2009, LSO scholarships enabled 20 local youth to participate in competitive-level athletics. This was only possible through the generosity of people like you and our sponsors.
Each year LSO looks forward to continuing to advance our mission of providing athletic and leadership development opportunities to underprivileged youth. In these tough economic times, the need for our scholarships is growing. Your generosity will help ensure our continued investment in our youth. One hundred percent (100%) of your contributions go to fund athletic these scholarships.
The Need
There are many talented Latino youth in our community who lack the means to participate in competitive-level athletic programs due to insufficient economic means. The families of these talented young people may be able to afford to have their kids participate in recreational level sports. However, even though these young athletes may have the skills and athletic ability to do well at the competitive level, many families find the cost of such programs to be prohibitive. It is at the competitive level that young people truly have the ability to work with professional coaches and to develop as athletes past the elementary level. Competitive level sports also help young people to develop the personal discipline, commitment to team, and overall leadership skills that will assist them in school, work, and life as high performing contributors to society. Additionally, participation in competitive-level sports equips talented young athletes to participate at the high school and collegiate level. Often, talented high school athletes earn scholarships to college based on their athletic abilities. LSO is intended to help fill the gap for those families and talented young Latino athletes that have the skill, desire and drive, but that lack the economic resources to participate in competitive- level sports
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Latino Sports Outreach
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Latino Sports Outreach
1017 L Street, #399
Sacramento, CA 95814
Tax Exempt #20-4488266
NEWS - SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS
APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY MARCH 1, 2011, FOR UNDER 9-14 PLAYERS AND BY MAY 1, 2011, FOR UNDER 15-19 PLAYERS.
The complete application packet is available on-line. Be sure to complete all parts of the application.
Soccer, or Futbol (Football) as it is known internationally, is the most popular sport in Latin American countries and is growing very fast in California. However, many of the best and most committed players are being left behind.
Competitive soccer is the one of the highest levels of youth soccer in California. In competitive leagues, kids have the opportunity to train under the best coaches, and play with and against the best athletes. This environment challenges them and prepares them for higher levels of achievement, and possibly the ability to play at the collegiate level.
The Opportunity
The Latino Sports Outreach (LSO) was founded to make modest investments of time and money into assisting the many high potential Latino athletes realize their full potential with the expectation that the return on this investment will accrue to all of us. Specifically, LSO is aiming to sponsor a growing number of youth players to play "competitive soccer," which is generally restricted to the affluent families in our communities
The Opportunity 
