"IT'S EASIER TO BUILD STRONG CHILDREN THAN TO REPAIR BROKEN ADULTS"

- Frederick Douglass

We have served over 1,000 youth with scholarships to our programs since 2013.

We are educating today’s youth & providing character development for tomorrow’s challenges.

No manager, officer or founder has ever taken a salary from our organization.

We need your support to continue giving back.

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"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is mortal"

- Albert Pike

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Approximately 2,000 student-athletes have attended OCYSA’s programs & clinics since 2013.

About 50% of those student-athletes have been on FULL financial scholarship due to need.

The future for OCYSA is bright.

Our goal is to grow by 20% in 2017. 

North Huntington Beach and Santa Ana households' need for our programs is driving that growth. Our fastest growing athletic Program is “Youth Wrestling” followed by “Speed and Agility”. Both programs are co-ed.

One of OCYSA’s biggest challenges is

a shortage of storage space near our practice areas

for equipment and the ability to move equipment such as wrestling mats, core training equipment etc.

“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
~ John Wooden

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"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."
~ John Wooden

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“Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.”
~ John Wooden

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“It’s not important to better than someone else, but be better than yesterday.”

~ Jigoro Kano

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"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
~ John Wooden

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"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."
~ Vince Lombardi

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“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
~ John Wooden

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“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”
~ Vince Lombardi

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"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
~ Vince Lombardi

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“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

~ Vince Lombardi

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Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. 

And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

~Vince Lombardi

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"IF IT'S IMPORTANT TO YOU, YOU WILL FIND A WAY. IF NOT, YOU WILL FIND AN EXCUSE." 

~ Anonymous 

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"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
~ John Wooden

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“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
~ John Wooden

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"Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you."
~ John Wooden

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“The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.”

~ Morihei Ueshiba

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” 

- Aristotle

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“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.”
~ John Wooden

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“Young people need role models, not critics.”
~ John Wooden

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"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
~ Vince Lombardi

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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

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“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

~ Maya Angelou

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"Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has." 

~ Cael Sanderson

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“Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.”

~ Alfred A. Montapert

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“Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”

~ Sam Levenson

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“Nothing will work unless you do.”

~ Maya Angelou

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“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.”

~ Maya Angelou

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"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."
~ Vince Lombardi

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“There's a way to do it better - find it.”

~ Thomas A. Edison

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“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” 

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

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“Technique beats strength, attitude beats EVERYTHING.”

~ Joe Gonzales

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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

~ Epictetus

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“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”

~Vince Lombardi

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“I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.”

~ Florence Nightingale

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“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

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“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.”

~ Vince Lombardi

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