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Monday, April 11, 2011

Urban Knights show their soft spot.

On Friday April 8th, the Urban Knight volleyball team said hello to the Tenderloin of SF for a little community service.


Youth with a Mission, is a church non profit organization that gets people involved in many charitable events all around the world. In San Francisco, on every second Friday of the month, YWAM goes out into the tenderloin to serve hot chocolate to the homeless that live there.

All smiles as they make their way to YWAM
Before the girls set out they got a briefing on what to expect and how to interact with the homeless on the street. Some started to feel a bit weirry, but with a heart of gold and courage of a lion they make their hot chocolate and set out on the most dangerous parts of SF.

Youth with a Misson

When they meet back up at the end of the night, the team realized how their assumptions of the ones that live on the streets where not what they thought.  Some ended coming back with stories that would last them a life time. But the one thing they can all agree on, is that they wont think of the Tenderloin the same again and of the people that call those streets home.


Doing their best to make the tastiest Hot chocolate

Setter Melissa Cheng Opens up packets of Hot Chocolate

Head Coach Ali Magner gets ready to head out

Urban Knight Volleyball

Friday, April 8, 2011

Oh my gosh a blog! yay!

Ok SUPER excited for this blog, and wanting to see how well this will take off. The girls and I will update this with all the things that go on in our little Athlete lives that we feel like sharing. Today we have a Community Service Opportunity that will help put our team out into the community. We will be serving Hot Chocolate in the SF tenderloin, and I'll post photos for everyone to see. Really excited for that as well!

Also as just a preview of what the team is up to this weekend. We are headed to Monteray Bay for a tourney. I know this is also another exciting thing for us, we have come soooo far to see how well all our hard work is paying off. After months of hard work and sweat we get to see the results of our labor! We are going to be AMAZIINGGG!