Colorado Gives Day - Scholarship
Each year, Real invests a portion of its budget to enable players who couldn’t otherwise afford to play soccer, to join the game. Our club and its donors have enabled many of our players to not only afford a season of soccer, but to play throughout their youth, often earning a college scholarship because of the skills they gained at Real. We offer college preparation workshops and on-going gifts to help players of every age afford to participate in the game.
Real Colorado soccer can do so much more when you
GIVE A BUCK!
Start with donating a buck!
Every gift counts and makes a difference for Real Colorado, but if you are interested in donating with a target in mind, the information below can help.
Purchase a soccer ball for a player
$15 purchases a soccer ball for a player. Things many of take for granted have to be sacrificed for essentials such as food, rent, and utilities. $15 is all it takes to get a ball to a player.
Purchase a Uniform for new recreational player to Real Colorado
$35 purchases a red and white jersey, black shorts and socks or our newest players to Real Colorado. Every year we have more requests for uniform support than we can grant. Consider making a $35 donation on Colorado Gives Day!
$85 purchases a Nike red and white jersey with number, black shorts, black socks for our players and teams who begin competing against peers from other clubs in Colorado.
Adopt a Cubbie
An introduction to soccer can change a life. It can lead to friendship, an active lifestyle, improve success and attendance in school.
$85 covers the registration cost of our youngest players at Real Colorado.
Adopt a Recreational Player
Our goal at Real Colorado is to provide an opportunity to fall in love with the game of soccer no matter the ability or level. Our recreational program ensures no player is left behind. With a volunteer network of coaches led by our staff at Real Colorado, our recreational program provides soccer for players regardless of level.
$200 provides the season registration fee for most of our Real Colorado recreational programming. Being involved in youth sports is directly related to better students, happier kids, more success with friendships and a healthier lifestyle. $200 opens to keeps the door open for an 8-14 year old who just loves to play.
Interested in a Larger Commitment
Real Colorado is nationally recognized for the development of our players. This is evidenced by our team and player success at the state, regional, national and even international levels. As players achieve higher levels of success, the cost goes up to participate, and for our talented players who do not have the financial resources to continue, our scholarship program is often the difference between them dropping out of soccer and getting loans to attend a local college to getting an athletic scholarship to a college, local or national, getting the support from the school in both their academics and athletics and often changing their story in a significant way. For each of these scholarships, the donor will get a letter from the player they support detailing the opportunity it provided them.
$1000 covers the cost of a trip to a National Showcase or out of state tournament. These opportunities are often the favorite memories of players off the field, but are the platform to be seen by college coaches and open up doors that might not open otherwise.
$2000 generally provides most players the ability to play both fall and spring for a competitive program. While all players play to have fun, some find fun in participating in select environments where like ability players are brought together to compete against like ability players. Beginning at 8 years of age, our select programs provides players with professional instruction, training and opportunity to reach their potential as soccer players.
$4500 supports the cost of our elite programming on an annual basis. Real Colorado competes at the highest levels nationally in the ECNL and MLS Next leagues. Each program is designed with the elite athlete in mind and requires a full commitment of time, talent and treasure. With year round training and games, 6-7 annual trips, the cost of these programs would be a limiting factor for many families were it not for the support of Real Colorado through donations from people and business likes you and yours. Every year there are players in this program who are 100% dependent on Real Colorado to provide their soccer opportunity. This significant sum of support has set so many Real Colorado players onto college opportunities they turned into professional careers both in soccer and out of soccer. Their stories are often incredible and the odds they beat to even make it to this level of competition is a story in and of itself.
Your gift to our scholarship program has a direct impact to the future of our players and their education, both on the field and out in the world. To make your tax-deductible donation now, visit our donation page or email Jared Spires at Jareds@realcolorado.net for questions and information.