About Trusted Sports
Trusted Sports is a mission-based company founded by
a group of seasoned executives, parents, & athletes with a goal to
improve the experience for all involved in the youth sports world.
With more than 70% of kids dropping out of sports before they turn thirteen, Trusted Sports was created to keep kids in the game by executing its mission to motivate kids to thrive in life through sports by inspiring, educating, and uniting young athletes, parents, and coaches. We know when our kids are engaged in youth sports it translates to a decrease in childhood and teenage obesity, lower levels of drug use, fewer cases of teenage pregnancy and an increase in their overall health and wellbeing.
A Trusted Sports Community
Trusted Sports' objective is to be the leading resource for the 170+ million youth sports participants in the United States by creating a Trusted Sports Community through an integrated online and mobile platform that monumentally improves communications, education, aggregation of information, and sharing amongst all involved in a young athlete’s sports life. The Trusted Sports Community will have content, tools, and fun applications specifically tailored for use by parents, coaches and youth athletes. Parents will be able to easily establish a secure community centered on their youth athlete kids and connecting with their grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Coaches will be able to easily establish a secure community focusing on a particular team. Youth sports forums will be available to all parents, coaches, officials, youth sports organizations and others involved and interested in the youth sports arena.
Rudy Awards Program
Trusted Sports has developed the National Rudy Awards Program that is positively influenced by the inspirational impact of football legend Daniel 'Rudy' Ruettiger. The Rudy Awards honor young athletes who demonstrate the exemplary values of Rudy Ruettiger that have been shared with millions in the critically acclaimed film RUDY. These award programs are national in scope, have both online and offline programs, cross all socio-economic backgrounds, and will harvest many meaningful and inspirational human interest sports stories.
The High School Football Rudy Awards are aimed at not only celebrating incredibly inspiring player stories, but also to motivate other kids to thrive in life through youth sports. A total of $20,000 in academic scholarships will be awarded. The 2009 Selection Committee includes former Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints Head Coach, Jim Mora Sr., NBC Football Sideline Reporter Andrea Kremer, former Seattle Seahawks running back and NFL MVP Shaun Alexander, former New England Patriots quarterback and four time pro bowl selection Drew Bledsoe, and Inside the NFL Special Correspondent Jenn Brown.
The College Football Rudy Awards were created in 2007 by The Rudy Foundation to honor the country's most inspirational Division I football players. The inaugural award was awarded in 2007 to Terry Clayton of the University of Kentucky. Terry Clayton went deaf at the age of five as the result of a high fever from chicken pox. Despite this limitation, he became an All-State player in high school out of Olmstead, KY, and made the University of Kentucky Wildcats football team as a walk-on in each season. The 2008 winner was Drew Combs, a congenital amputee. Born with a left arm that ends at his elbow, Drew earned a position at Texas Christian University as a senior kickoff specialist and started every game in the 2007 and 2008 seasons. After every televised game, the TCU Athletic Department was inundated with e-mails from athletes and parents of athletes that face physical challenges. He is an inspiration to all of them and personally responded to every message.