Houston Dynamo FC and Dash have partnered with the RISE lab to conduct a scientific, robust intervention designed for early childhood schools using the Soccer Starts at Home ® (SSAH) program. The SSAH® has been internationally renowned as a revolutionary training mechanism that helps children not only learn soccer skill development, but in doing so, assists in the overall health and wellbeing of the child through the engagement and support of their parents.
Diesel’s Skill Builders is an innovative school and outreach program from the Houston Dynamo and Dash inspired by SSAH and designed for young children ages 2-8 and more specifically, their Parents and the schools in our Greater Houston community.
The AthLife Foundation's national platform works to ensure that deserving kids from our nation's most challenged, yet promising communities, can achieve in their future careers beyond sport. Through grant funding, training and industry leading resources, we help schools create a critical professional mentoring position in secondary education, called an Academic Athletic Coach.
That Academic Athletic Coach works year-round to create high impact programming, taps into a student’s passion for their sport and athletics, drives academic achievement, life and leadership skill development, and prepares kids for post high school success. This project seeks to identify areas of need for student-athletes to assist the Academic Athletic Coach.
The purpose of this project is to identify relationships between pre-season physical test scores, performance, and injury risk in professional soccer players from the MLS team, Houston Dynamo FC.
This projects seeks to develop a new measure for resources in Division I student-athletes that can predict wellbeing and future development. Our aim is to identify resources that are deficient so Athletic Depts can provide the necessary programming and assistance to boost student-athletes performance both on and off the field of play.