Community
Team SAGE brings families, educators, coaches, mentors, professionals, and community organizations together to help scholar-athletes succeed.
Community is part of the program
Young people thrive when the adults and institutions around them work together with purpose.
Team SAGE uses resource networking and coalition building to connect scholar-athletes with academic support, mentors, healthy activities, college exposure, professional guidance, and opportunities to serve others.
Our approach extends beyond the basketball court. We help build a support system that encourages students to become accountable scholars, responsible citizens, college graduates, and future community leaders.
“The goal is not only to help young people succeed, but to prepare them to reach back and lift others as they advance.”The Team SAGE philosophy
Building a network around every scholar-athlete
Family engagement
Parents and guardians are essential partners in reinforcing attendance, academic effort, personal responsibility, and healthy choices.
Professional mentoring
Professionals from diverse careers help students understand college majors, career options, leadership, and workplace expectations.
Peer leadership
Older students and athletes support younger participants through teach-and-learn experiences, encouragement, and positive example.
Community service
Service projects help scholar-athletes practice citizenship, empathy, teamwork, and responsibility to the neighborhoods around them.
Educational workshops
Community experts lead conversations about health, nutrition, relationships, law, culture, peer pressure, and social responsibility.
Safe, structured activity
Organized sports, tutoring, mentoring, and enrichment provide constructive support during critical after-school hours.
Partners that strengthen the mission
Team SAGE has worked with schools, nonprofits, civic organizations, health organizations, professional mentors, and community leaders to expand opportunity.
The Salvation Army
Supported facilities, classrooms, computer-lab access, transportation, tutoring, and youth programming through Project Tip-Off.
Target: Excellence
Provided professional tutoring, test preparation, college recruiting guidance, and academic support.
Sacramento High School
Partnered with Team SAGE to create peer mentoring and leadership opportunities between older and younger players.
Sigma Pi Phi
Provided professional role models and guidance related to college, academic majors, and career choices.
100 Black Men of Sacramento
Helped secure practice facilities and served as a source of mentors as Team SAGE expanded.
UC Davis Health Systems
Supported the creation of a community tutoring center in the SAGE Room at Kidd’s Sports Gym.
Ways scholar-athletes learn to give back
Team SAGE encourages participants to see themselves not only as students and athletes, but also as emerging leaders with a responsibility to improve their communities.
There is a place for everyone to contribute
Become a mentor
Share your professional experience, encouragement, and guidance with a scholar-athlete.
Get involvedPartner with Team SAGE
Collaborate on facilities, tutoring, workshops, transportation, events, or student opportunities.
Start a conversationSupport the mission
Help fund educational resources, mentoring, community programming, and scholar-athlete development.
DonateHelp build the next generation of community leaders
Join Team SAGE as a parent, mentor, volunteer, partner, sponsor, or supporter.