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The Matton Community Unit School District school board held a meeting regarding ideas for programs for youth sports.
“We want to look for positive behavior, attendance at practices and also in school,” Assistant Superintendent Christy Hild said during the meeting. “It also goes to note that students will have to have a sports physical, they will have to kind of meet those same requirements for kids who are involved in our sports.”
The district’s middle and high schools offer students various sports, such as basketball and football
The target for the program being presented on was kids in 4th, 5th, and 6th grades for sports that the district has a varsity team for. They are aiming for expanding opportunities for all kids in the district as it is proven that kids who are involved with them have increased health, sense of belonging, improved behavior and improved academic success
The district recently opened a new athletic facility for its high school. It’ll be home for track, soccer and tennis.
“The upgrades will certainly make Mattoon High School the premier facilities in the area,” MHS baseball coach Jarod Kiger said to Coles County Sports. “These advancements will, hopefully, draw people to our community and increase the number of participants across the board.”
Programmatic success in both academics and extracurriculars occurs when the program starts early in the student's life and continues for many years, which is why the focus is on young kids in areas that the district can provide opportunities for the rest of their academic careers. It also allows the high school kids an opportunity to serve and earn volunteer hours
The board will meet again at 7 p.m. on Oct. 11 at the Mattoon CUSD2 Board of Education Office on 17011 Charleston Avenue in Mattoon.
The specifics of the proposal were to have doubled up seasons for boys and girls basketball and soccer. They would have a fall season of boys basketball for 4th, 5th and 6th-grade boys and a fall season for soccer for 4th, 5th and 6th-grade girls. In the spring, they would have girls soccer for 4-6th grade girls and boys basketball for 4-6th grade boys according to a survey sent out in June.
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