Marine Youth Foundation & Youth Physical Fitness Program Information
Sample Competition Guidelines
Sample Guidelines: A Coaches Letter
The Youth Physical Fitness Program (YPF) began as an experimental competition in one New York high school, the National Youth Physical Fitness Program is now national in scope. In fact, young Americans are taking part in this program from all across the United States, Great Britain and more fitness teams are forming in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other parts of the World.
Being a part of the national program includes taking an active role in ensuring the young people of America are of sound mind and body.
Many of the youth in this country are not physically able to meet the challenges of everyday life. Poor eating habits, lack of physical exercise and low self-esteem contribute to this desperate condition. Through the National Youth Physical Fitness Program and the National High School Physical Fitness Championships, the Foundation has been able to help thousands of kids turn their lives around. Many of the young men and women who participate in these programs are exposed to positive role models for the first time in their lives. Many have never had too meet a challenge, attain a goal, or have the opportunity to dream a dream. The United States Marines Youth Foundation, Inc. is keeping those dreams alive…one school and one child at a time.
The National Youth Physical Fitness Program encompasses students from kindergarten and elementary school, through junior and senior high school and college. The program is designed to complement, not replace, existing curriculum and to be easily implemented in any school situation. The program provides a mental, moral and physical challenge and establishes reachable goals. Students are tested in five basic exercises and are awarded scores indicative of their general fitness level. Students can earn one beautiful full-color certificate for each year of participation...up to 17 total.
This program provides a means for adult leaders to actually measure the fitness level of participating students throughout the school year. More importantly though, this program, provides hope and offers our youth an opportunity to become part of something bigger than themselves, an opportunity to be challenged, and an opportunity to grow as individuals. It teaches students to respect their bodies and helps them build and maintain a personal resistance to drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
The program provides a mental, moral and physical challenge and establishes reachable goals. The fitness program also provides important recognition, which leads to pride in one's self and is in many cases a building block for future self-improvement. This program, which is recognized and endorsed by the President's Council on Physical Fitness and personally endorsed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is offered to every school and youth organization.
Will you be a part of a fitness program where everyone wins? Marine Youth Foundation Website
Sample Competition Guidelines at the State Level
High school physical fitness teams are eligible to compete at the New Jersey level. The state level of competition will be broken down into 50 states. The complete list of states, state organizing committees and dates of competition can soon be found at www.marineyouthfoundation.org.
Qualifying Criteria:
- Each high school team will consist of five or six members and one coach.
- Team members must be full-time students in high school grades 9-12.
- In order to qualify for competition, students in grades 9-12 must not have reached their 20th birthday during the current school year.
- Teams must attain a qualifying score of 1875 points for male teams (375 point individual average) and 1250 points for female teams (250 point individual average) in order to compete at sanctioned New Jersey events. Team scores can be verified prior to New Jersey events by calling your state organizing committee and have a member of that committee present during qualifying.
- Teams competing at New Jersey events must be registered with the United States Marines Youth Foundation no later than 10 days prior to competition. Registration forms can be found on the web site under School Registration. Additionally, teams are required to register for competition. This form can be found on the web site under H.S. Program.
Sample Guidelines: A Coaches Letter
Dear Coach:
The 11th Annual High School Physical Fitness Competition, sponsored by the United States Marines Youth Foundation, Inc. and the Marine Corps League, that will be held Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at the Rutgers College Avenue gym in New Brunswick, NJ.
This letter serves as an invitation for your school to enter a team(s) into the New Jersey High School Physical Fitness Championships. There will be an entry fee of $50 per male/female “A” Competition team that will be due at time of submission of registration documents if submitted no later than 10 January. If submission is after 10 January, the entry fee will be $60 per team because of rising costs. The absolute deadline is February 21st. This will make it possible for us to order the t-shirts without over ordering, and will aid in the offset of costs for the t-shirts and awards. Checks will be made out to the Marine Corps League Youth Physical Fitness Program (MCLYPF) and mailed with the registration forms as noted below.
Teams are requested to arrive at the Rutgers College Avenue gym in New Brunswick by 7:30AM for check-in and the sequence in which teams will compete will be determined by the date of receipt of documents. Most changes will be accommodated up until 1-week prior (March 5) unless there are emergencies.
Registration forms can be found within this package or on the Foundations website at www.marineyouthfoundation.org. Each team is required to pre-register via the enclosed High School Registration Form and the Competition Registration Form or via our website. These forms must be mailed to the following address: Marine Corps League, Youth Physical Fitness, at 633 Watchung Rd., Bound Brook, NJ 08805.
The United States Marines Youth Foundation, Inc., or Marine Corps League will not assume liability for injuries incurred during your stay. Each athlete must complete and sign the enclosed release form. Coaches are directed to bring the completed release forms at time of check-in.
Time permitting; we will attempt to have the Awards presentation at the completion of the events.
Note: The 3rd Annual Northeast Regional meet will be held on April 19th at Parkland High School, Allentown, PA. Details will be forthcoming
This is an opportunity for you to pass the word about the United States Marine Youth Foundation and its Youth Physical Fitness program. This program is available at ALL levels from ages 5 - college. Books describing the program are available on our website or by calling the above noted telephone number.
If you have any questions, please call me at (732) 356-8762 or send me an email at ypfchair@yahoo.com. I look forward to seeing you March 12th.
