By The Public Communications Office
In this episode of “What’s Up, College Station?” Marketing Coordinator Grace Hallowell and Recreation Supervisor Casey Prescott discuss the city’s fall recreation schedule, featuring new programs and old favorites for youth and adults.
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Grace Hallowell:
What’s up College Station? I’m Grace Hallowell, and today I’m joined with Casey Prescott from our parks department. He’s our athletic supervisor. Hi, Casey.
Casey Prescott:
Hey, how’s it going?
Grace Hallowell:
It’s going well. We are starting, schools back. Students are back.
Casey Prescott:
Yes.
Grace Hallowell:
People are getting back into their fall routines, which also brings fall sports. The weather’s cooling down. We can go outside without sweating so much, hopefully.
Casey Prescott:
Yes. Yeah, exactly. And thankfully a lot of our programs start right at the beginning of September, so it’s going to keep cooling down.
Grace Hallowell:
Yes.
Casey Prescott:
So it’s going to be a lot easier and a lot better to be able to get outside and start some new stuff.
Grace Hallowell:
Yes. So let’s talk about what programs we have going on this fall, and who can be involved in them.
Casey Prescott:
Yeah, absolutely. So we have a great lineup of youth and adult programs this fall, which is really exciting. We have new programs that we’ve never done before, which is really neat as well. And so we do have, our mainstays are traditional programs that happen kind of reoccurring every year. Even multiple seasons throughout the year. And so it’s adult softball, adult kickball. Those happen at Veterans Park Monday through Thursday, multiple divisions. Men’s and co-ed.
And then we also have our tennis programs that happen at Bee Creek Park. And so that’s for youth and adults. So youth as young as five and adults as old as you want to, and you want to come play. And so we have everything from junior beginner tennis to even a round-robin league. So if you’re just starting out, never played before. Your kid’s looking to try something new.
Then we have beginner tennis, which is great starting at age five. But if you’re a young adult and you have experience playing tennis, maybe played high school or something. And you want some match play, you want to kind of get out and play some others and meet some other people in the tennis community. We have a round-robin league as well, which is really neat.
And so yeah, it’s just really exciting to have our mainstays over and over. There’s a lot of community interest that we can host these programs year after year, season after season, which is really awesome.
Grace Hallowell:
Yes. And for all abilities too. So you don’t have to be intimidated if you’re just starting, or if you have some seasons under your belt. Definitely just keep up your momentum there.
Casey Prescott:
Yeah, absolutely. And so we do have some new programs, especially for youth, which is really neat. So we now are offering a speed and agility training program. And so if your child does play maybe multiple sports, but they’re wanting to gain some experience with more speed and agility, flexibility, kind of self-confidence.
We do have a speed and agility training that’s happening on Tuesdays at Central Park. And then we also have a new Empower Run club, which is going to be happening on Monday evenings. And so this is an enrichment empowerment program with a running component to it.
And so they’re not just going out and running as long as they can. There’s drills and competitions and things to it that are helping kids grow self-confidence through running. And growing that ability physically and mentally, which is really, really neat. And so that’s going to be on Mondays through an instructor, through our department.
Grace Hallowell:
Yes. That’s very interesting. I know speed and agility, I always think of dog speed and agility training. But for kids too. Similar, they have energy. They need to learn how to focus that energy into something productive for their mind and their bodies.
Casey Prescott:
Absolutely. And a lot of sports now are requiring kids to be faster. Speed is a very big thing, especially when you get in high school sports. And so it’s really great that we’re offering something through middle school age kids to allow them to grow some of those techniques and just get familiar with those drills and different things that they go through to be able to build that in their body.
Grace Hallowell:
Yes. So what about if someone is looking to be involved in a sport but they may have an injury, or may not want to be so active on the field. Is there opportunities for coaching and staff?
Casey Prescott:
Yes, absolutely. And so for our youth programs, we do need coaches all the time for all of our youth programs that are by team-based. And so our seven-on-seven league, we do have volunteer coaches and we are in need of some. And so they can be a parent coach, a non-parent coach. So even a college kid, if you’re here in town and you just loved football growing up, you can come be a coach, it’s great. You can go to cstx.gov/sports, and you can look at our volunteer opportunities tab on there.
And parents who register for our programs, we send out emails letting them know this as well. And so if you’ve already registered for that, you can look out for that link from me personally being sent out to you via email. But all of our registration and all of our dates, locations, times, pricing, ages is all on the website, cstx.gov/sports. So it’s all there. It’s all available so anyone can see.
Grace Hallowell:
Right. Is there anything else you can share with us about what’s coming up this fall?
Casey Prescott:
Yeah, so we have our ultimate Frisbee League back. It’s on Tuesday night at Bachman Park, which is really cool. So if you’re into Frisbee, even disc golf, ultimate Frisbee is a really fun thing. A lot of those Frisbee-oriented sports can be a little more individual sense. Going and maybe just playing with a couple friends. But our league allows people to meet people in the ultimate community to come be together and play together, which is really fun.
And you play actual games week in and week out, every Tuesday. And we also have our fundamental field hockey for youth back on Wednesday nights as well. And so that’s for ages five through 16, which is fun. And so not a lot required there and equipment, we provide all of it. But a great thing to try out for kids if they’re looking for something new.
Grace Hallowell:
Yes. I know I may not look like it, but I was a field hockey kid growing up and it’s a great way to relieve your stress on the field.
Casey Prescott:
Awesome. Yeah. And our instructor used to be a college coach. She knows what she’s doing, very knowledgeable. So it’s really neat. It’s a great sport to try out and just learn and get some reps in.
Grace Hallowell:
Awesome. Well, yes. Cstx.gov/sports for any questions. Or you can always stop in to the parks office and the staff, you guys are great at explaining things and helping people figure out where they need to go. Is there anything else you’d like to share with us today?
Casey Prescott:
If anyone has any specific questions, they can always call my line directly at (979) 764-3442. I’d be happy to talk to them.
Grace Hallowell:
All right. Well, thank you so much.
Casey Prescott:
Absolutely. Thank you.
Grace Hallowell:
And that’s what’s up.
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