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Coach Paul Townsend from Indianapolis IN is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Building Better Athletes 2

Help me give my students foam pads and medicine balls for a safe environment to learn and train develop their skills.

  • $162 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My kids are low income students who have never had a strength coach in their building. We are changing a culture and helping build a better future.

They are good kids who are excited about lifting weights and training to become better athletes and I hope better people.

We are developing programs to teach work ethic to help them achieve their athletic goals, which can teach them how to be successful both on and off the athletic fields and courts.

My Project

These items are specifically designed to protect my student-athletes physically. The foam pads will be placed on jump boxes to protect shins and feet from the front of the boxes when the athlete jumps short.

The medicine balls will help my athletes develop explosive power in a safe manner.

No heavy bars, no complicated movements, just safe power output. A medicine ball can be used for a variety of exercises to develop explosive power in all directions and using all muscle groups. The weight of the medicine balls allows students of all abilities and strength levels to be able to safely develop explosive power.

Coach Paul Townsend
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
CAP Barbell Rubber Medicine Ball, 10-Pound, Red • Amazon Business $21.99 3 $65.97
Roving Cove Baby Proofing Edge & Corner Guards | Child Safety Furniture Bumper | Table Protectors | Pre-Taped Corners | Safe Edge & Corner Cushion | 20.4 ft [18 ft Edge + 8 Corners] | Oyster White • Amazon Business $19.99 2 $39.98

Materials cost

$105.95

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$137.54

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$24.27

Total project goal

$161.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$161.81

2 Donors

-$161.81

Donations toward project cost

-$137.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.27

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$0.00

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