PROGRAMS
As an extension to its Make-a-Splash initiative, World Sport Chicago has launched a program to promote and enhance competitive aquatics in the Chicagoland area.  The program aims to increase the appeal and awareness of existing aquatic opportunities, to expand and enhance community programming, and to increase access to quality facilities.
World Sport Chicago has partnered with the Chicago Park District and USA Badminton to establish an organized youth badminton program in the Chicago parks. The badminton program was launched in the fall of 2008 in 41 park locations and was open to ages 8 - 14 years old.
World Sport Chicago partnered with USA Boxing in application for an Olympic Opportunity Grant from the United States Olympic Committee to develop and launch the Gloves not Guns program.  Gloves not Guns is a program for Chicago youth that offers free clinics and coaching at designated training sites.  Coaches are USA Boxing certified and offer youth a healthy, supervised alternative from participating in gang activities and violent behavior. 
Chicago 2016, World Sport Chicago and U.S. Paralympics announced the creation of a Paralympic component to the legacy organization. The Chicago Paralympic Development Program is the first entity of its kind in the country and addresses a new segment of Chicago’s population served by World Sport Chicago. It partners with existing Paralympic sport providers in the city and suburbs to enhance the opportunities for sport delivery to the public with physical or visual disabilities.
WSC has launched “Coach for Chicago” (CFC) to address the lack of coaches and people with sports knowledge to support local sports programs. Coach for Chicago matches schools, parks and social service organizations with enthusiastic volunteers who are committed to helping the youth of Chicago!
Through the World Sport Chicago International Sport Exchange Program, young athletes have the opportunity to travel abroad in order to share their culture, ideas, and training techniques with Chicago area youth and clubs.  WSC brings these athletes to Chicago and partners them with local clubs where they train daily, breaking down language barriers and cultural differences.
World Sport Chicago is partnering with the Chicago Park District, Illinois Swimming and the City of Chicago as a local partner in USA Swimming's National Make-a-Splash Campaign.  Make-a-Splash is aimed at increasing awareness around the issues of water-safety and participation in local Learn-to-Swim opportunities, particularly in ethnically diverse communities. 
World Sport Chicago is partnering with USA Track & Field, the Track & Field Athletes Union, the Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Park District, the Chicago-based Friends of Track & Field and many others in developing a program aimed at revitalizing a passion in the sport of track & field.
World Sport Chicago is partnering with the Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Park District, Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation and other wrestling sport partners in the city of Chicago to help expand and enhance Public League Wrestling.  Through targeted initiatives such as equipment grants, coaching clinics, and connecting clubs with resources at the national level, WSC aims to provide the Public League with similar opportunities as its suburban peers. 
High school juniors who live and study in Chicago and have participated in an Olympic/Paralympic sport for two seasons in the past three years are eligible to apply for one of 16 renewable college scholarships worth up to $10,000 annually ($40,000 total). Up to fifty-six students will be chosen to become WSC Scholars and participate in a Kaplan ACT tutoring and Chicago Scholars mentoring program that encourages academic and personal success during the college application process.
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Address:
World Sport Chicago
200 E. Randolph St.
20th Floor
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone:
312.861.4850