Category: Middle School Sports
AEF is back at it with our Middle School Sports program, which we have been running since 2009 after it was cut by AUSD. AUSD and public middle school students are eligible to participate as part of their school teams. Girls Basketball games begin in January 2022 with the boys games following in March. Coed Volleyball and Track & Field will be spring sports.
AEF took advantage of the break in action to create Guiding Principles to steer the program.
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Over 40 6th – 8th graders competed in this fall’s...
The Alameda Education Foundation’s middle school cross country club, the Alameda Asteroids, completed their season in November with a strong showing at the regional championships on November 3, 2016. 
The championship meet was held at Canyon Middle School where a new spectator friendly course was created. The sixth grade boys as a collective came in 2nd place. Six medals were presented to our students at the awards ceremony. We received 3 first place medals,
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By Debra Cramer, Alameda Asteroids coach
The Alameda Asteroids Middle School Cross Country Club hosted a meet with 11 Bay Area schools from the SACMAL league on Wednesday, September 28th at Crab Cove. The Alameda Asteroids is a middle school cross country club managed under AEF’s after-school enrichment program. Sixth – 8th graders from Alameda middle schools participate in the running club from September through November each fall and compete as a team against schools from outside Alameda.
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Daniel transferred to his new middle school in the beginning of 6th grade. After a few weeks, the AEF Middle School Sports coach, who is also a P.E. teacher at the school, noticed he was hanging by himself and had little enthusiasm. Daniel told the coach he was having a hard time making friends and was feeling “bummed out”. The coach suggested sports as a way for him to get involved.
The coach realized he had no experience with any sports,
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Our Middle School Sports program provides students with a safe, healthy after-school activity that supports sportsmanship, teamwork, goal setting, self-confidence and school spirit. But you never know what else can happen when you put a group of determined middle schoolers together.
The Wood Middle School volleyball players decided they wanted to support breast cancer awareness. Throughout the month of October the girls donned pink hair bows and the boys pink socks and laces.
» Read more about: Wood Volleyball Team Raises Money for Breast Cancer Awareness »
Daniel transferred to his new middle school in the beginning of 6th grade. After a few weeks, the AEF Middle School Sports coach, who is also a P.E. teacher at the school, noticed he was hanging by himself and had little enthusiasm. Daniel told the coach he was having a hard time making friends and was feeling “bummed out”. The coach suggested sports as a way for him to get involved.
