Downtowns Finest #JustWin

Here at DFYA, our goal is to give youth the opportunity to succeed. Our focus is both on and off the court by supporting the student-athletes in the areas of coaching, fitness, lifestyle, character development, mentorship, and academic tutoring. The "Just Win" Program is not about winning games or even championships, although we "Strive" to achieve those goals it is not our primary focus. Our primary focus is on the journey to self-actualization and how important the climb is to overall achievement.  

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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust, sweat, and tears; who strives valiantly; who makes mistakes, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring to reach for greatness, so that his place shall never be with the fearful and scared critics who neither know victory nor defeat."