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Access Youth Academy Teaches At Risk Youth Through Squash

Monday was the first day in a new building that was 10 years in the making for Access Youth Academy. For the past 15 years, Access has changed the lives of at-risk, low-income students through the sport of squash ...

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‘Weird but cool’ sport of squash serves up new opportunities for San Diego youth

BY EMILY ALVARENGA

MARCH 25, 2022

To students attending the Access Youth Academy, squash is more than a vegetable.

It is a unique sport, a key ingredient in the academy’s recipe for propelling students ...

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Unique program for underprivileged students has new home

BY MICHAEL J. WILLIAMS

JULY 6, 2021

To students attending the Access Youth Academy, squash is more than a vegetable.

It is a unique sport, a key ingredient in the academy’s recipe for propelling students ...

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Pacific Building Group Tops Out New Access Youth Academy Building

BY CHRISTINE HUARD

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Pacific Building Group raised the final beam to “top out” a steel-framed building, moving the 21,000 sqft structure with eight squash courts one step closer to completion....

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San Diego academy using squash to help kids reach college

BY STEVE ATKINSON

JULY 29, 2021

It begins with an after-school program of academics and squash from 7th through the 12th grade. Students visit colleges, prep for the SAT and ACT, get help with college applications, and of course, play in squash tournaments ...

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Blair Sadler is ‘flunking’ retirement as he helps students through squash

BY ELISABETH FRAUSTO

JULY 9, 2021

La Jollan Blair Sadler, a former president of Rady Children’s Hospital, is using retirement to continue his crusade to squash social inequities via Access Youth Academy ...

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Academics and squash give charter students a new choice for college

BY M.G. PEREZ

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“Why is it called squash? Because the ball is squashy,” said Deon Saffery, the Academy’s squash manager. She was recruited from the United Kingdom to come to San Diego and teach children as young as 10 how to play the centuries-old game ...

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A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to transform the lives of underserved youth. Access was founded in 2006 by Greg Scherman and Chris Walker, who believed the San Diego community could benefit from an urban squash program that provided opportunity and support unlike any other non-profit in the region.

Federal Tax-ID (EIN) 20-5119659