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Causes: Sports, Winter Sports
Mission: The tremors youth synchronized ice skating team of san francisco bay area (tremorsync, inc. ) supports the healthy development of children and young people from diverse economic and social backgrounds by providing quality youth sports opportunities and a productive team environment. The tremors enables youth from many different bay area neighborhoods to come together, share their passion of ice skating, and work toward a common goal. Youth from the tenderloin all the way to marin form lasting friendships based on team commitment, fitness, dedication and camaraderie. The tremors provides children and youth from diverse backgrounds with a constructive out-of-school activity, support from caring adults, positive peer relations, and leadership opportunities.
Programs: The exempt program service accomplishments for 2017-2018, ending april 30 2018:year april 30, 2018 was as follows: major accomplishments: tremors teams participated in the us figure skating pacific coast synchronized skating sectional championships in wichita, kansas in january 2018:pre-juvenile - placed 2ndopen juvenile - advanced to final round, placed 8thintermediate - highest score for this team, placed 5thcontinuing to increase on-ice practice and off-ice choreography resulted in highest placements ever for each of these teams. Tremors also continued a highly successful off-season skills clinics with guest coaches in the spring of 2018. Organizational achievements:continued to build our competitive pipeline of multiple teams that can feed the higher level teams. Effectively utilized organizational structure through professional accounting and bookkeeping services. Improved skater and parent experience with team management application and strong team managers and volunteers. Effectively utilized website to disperse information about the organization, utilized social media plan and outreach, recruitment and stewardship strategy. Held give sync a try recruitment event and the official tryouts in february 2018, resulting in five teams and 70 rostered skaters for the 2018-2019 season - an increase of more than 68%.