April 2026

Dear CYSA family,                                                   

This year is our 35th Anniversary. For 35 years our passion at CYSA has been making youth sports available to the children and families of our community. We believe youth sports fosters growth in our youth both physically, mentally and emotionally. We are passionate about providing these opportunities to engage in recreational team sports to the families of our community. You are our community. We love watching your children play, compete and grow! Our constant desire is to improve the experience for each child and grow the number of participants involved in youth sports.

I’ve been involved with CYSA for the past 17 years a volunteer coach and 10 years as the Program Director. Our organization has grown to the point where we have over 2,850 kids register to play annually. We rent over 5,500 hours for practices and games and are the largest youth organization in the area.  We have maxed all available local space and need more athletic facilities to meet current demand. The lack of adequate opportunities and venues for youth sports has long been a point of frustration for me personally and I’ve heard many of you echo those same sentiments.

As you know we have been working toward a community athletic facility. It's taking time but we are making progress. We expect to get a final report and present it to our community this June. We will begin aggressively fundraising and working with local stake holders to get needed athletic facilities built.

We are now at the point where we need stakeholders and volunteers to move this vision forward. CYSA asks for your help in these areas.

1.       Communicate with us! – Do you know people that could help (land available, donations, professional skills we could use)? Do you know of other groups that would partner with us? Please email us with pertinent information that we can follow up on.

2.       Are you willing to contribute? – This will not be accomplished by one person! We will need people to help by volunteering, being on our Board of Directors, possibly donating time or skills, and of course financial contributions. A link for donations has been setup on our website for donations that will go directly toward the building fund.

 (*CYSA is a 501c3 approved business and all donations are tax deductible.  # 92-0134613)

Imagine a facility open daily for your kids to play basketball, volleyball, football, soccer, rugby, baseball, softball, track and field or another sport right here in Eagle River! This facility will take time, money, sweat and tears!  Yet I believe it will be greatly beneficial to the children and families of our community.  Join us in this goal and may our children be blessed by this great opportunity!

Sincerely,

Brian T. Rolston

CYSA Program Director