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Baylor Girls finished their seasons with over 60 mid to high-major D1 scholarships offers. The girls displayed their talent and competed very well during the July NCAA live events. The girls are truly grateful and humble while looking forward to visiting and meeting the staff at their potential college and universities. We have visited over…

Who qualifies for junior college? Our people perish due to lack of knowledge. I usually do not address negative people or naysayers. But I will like to educate people that want to criticize. Most people do not understand that there are academic requirements that student athletes must obtain and standardize test that they must pass…

Baylor Youth Foundation earns Mariah Jordan a scholarship to Pensacola State College Baylor Youth Foundation would like to congratulate Mariah Jordan. She has signed her letter of intent to Pensacola State College in Florida. Mariah is a 6’2 dominating post player with remarkable post moves. Jordan was a D1 transfer from Texas Corpus Christi. Mariah turned down over 15…

It only seemed like yesterday we were at the AAU National Super Showcase Championship. Darrell led his team to the finals at the AAU National Showcase. Now, I am watching one of my prominent young men from our program grow right before our eyes. We have had many young people that have come and gone from the…

Paul McRoberts was a tremendous basketball players and now has become a phenomenal football player for Southeast Missouri State University. Paul played three years for our AAU traveling team and was on the winning team that was runner up for the AAU National Super Showcase. Paul received several basketball D1 offers and chose a D1 football scholarship.…

Baylor’s Dejah Joshua & Michal Miller Gets Scholarship Offer University of Toledo. BYF Sports’s Dejah Joshua, 5’9 junior from Gary West Side and Michal Miller, 5’9 sophomore from Michigan City played so exceptionally well that they received a scholarship offer right after their performance at the University of Toledo Camp. Khadaizha Sanders was also offered. The ladies definitely represented our…

Baylor Youth Foundation is proud to announce it’s 17th signee Hattie Andrews who earned a full scholarship to Vincennes University! Hattie also earned the title honorable mention in the 2013 Indiana Hoosier magazine. Hattie had over six different scholarship offers from various colleges and she chose to stay closer to home. Hattie is 6’3, with a…

The Baylor Youth Fundraiser was a BLAST!!! We had fine dining at A Fusion Restaurant with live music with family and friend. We had six teams! Meanstreets table 5 came in 1st and Baylor’s table three and six came in 2nd & 3rd place. We would like to thank all of the players, parents and supporters that…

Mariah Hopkins Going Off to College! Mariah had some tuff decisions to make this year. One being, Which college would she choose? Mariah was blessed to have over 11 full ride offers (Including some big conferences in Texas, Florida & Illinois) . She turned down some major colleges to sign to Georgia Perimeter. Mariah is definitely…

The AllStar Trivia Fundraiser has moved to Saturday, June 15, 2013 @ the Matteson Community Center/Colin Powell Middle School. The event takes places at 6pm-10pm. Come out and show how smart you are! It is only $10 per ticket. For more information, please contact us @ 219-306-9932 or email us @ baylort@comcast.net

Another BYF Sports players signs to a Major D1. Andrew Drone signs to Rice University. We wish Andrew much success with playing in the USA Conference. Andrew played up his freshman and sophomore with BYF Sports for two seasons. He was left without a team his junior year due to all the Missouri teammates graduating.…

Claudia Cooper first HS Girl Signee for Lady BYF Sports for the 2013 classClaudia Cooper joined BYF Sports only last year and through her hard work has landed a full basketball athletic scholarship to Georgia Perimeter College in Clarkston, Georgia. George Perimeter is D1 junior college program that is heavily recruited by major D1 programs. Claudia Cooper…

Baylor Youth Foundation receive the Chicago Southland Grant. We are pleased to announce that we are the BYF has received a grant from the Chicago Southland Convention Visitor’s Bureau. Joel from the Bureau has been very instrumental with assisting BYF with facilitating housing and gyms for the Nike Spring Showdown and our AAU tournaments. We truly appreciate…

The Baylor Youth Foundation has been assisting student athletes achieve their dreams by obtain athletic scholarship through their explosive camps, all star events,NCAA events, junior college/prep services and through our foundation. All this would not be possible without the support from you! We would like to thank all the participating teams that have been…

From Gary To Hawaii Jason Jordan has a story to tell that should be made for the movies. Jason was born in Gary and move several times back and forth from South Bend, Indiana to Gary, Indiana. Coming from a drug infested and dysfunctional environment where he often found himself homeless. He was an orphan…

Darrell Johnson has started his season off strong with the Kansas State. He has been getting serious minutes with the Wildcats and has made several appearances in major international and college tournaments including the runner up title against Michigan at the Madison Square Garden on November 23, 2012 in New York City.