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Next Level Sports Foundation - Mission Statement

  • Learn More about Next Level Sports Foundation by Watching our Special Presentation on Comcast Sports Net-By Clicking Here-Thanks Mindi Bach Trimmer!

  • Next Level Sports Foundation (NLSF), a California 501c3 Non-Profit, exists to provide our families with the very best youth sports experience for our children in order for them to acquire life lessons and tools to grow into healthy young adults.  We have done this through summer camps at Serra High School, San Mateo (13 Years) and through our winter Flag Football Program (4 years). Coach Patrick Walsh, Head Coach of Serra High School in San Mateo, is the founder of NLSF. Coach Walsh's life has been committed to giving back to aspiring young athletes in the Bay Area. After a Hall of Fame Career (2011) as a running back at De La Salle High School Coach Walsh knew his life would be centered around coaching, with his main teaching vehicle: America's Passion-Football.  Coach Walsh believes that the deepest of life lessons are learned when community and human interaction collide combining: Academics, Athletics, Spirituality and most importantly Love.

  • With two young boys entering the stressful and often misguided world of youth sports Coach Walsh set out in 2011 to build the best youth sports organization possible through the great game of Flag Football. The NLSF Management Team sat down and thought about all of the things wrong with youth sports and laid a foundation for Flag Football in the Bay Area and beyond that provides a youth sports experience second to none.  Some highlights about our Flag Football Program:

  • NLSF Flag Football's inaugural season was the winter of 2012 with over 400 kids at Serra High School in San Mateo

  • By 2014 the program grew to 700 players with 400 families on a wait list. (Please see testimonials area under About Us)

  • In 2015 NLSF Flag Football will be expanding to sites all over the Bay Area: San Mateo, San Francisco, Kentfield, Danville, Pleasanton, Saratoga

  • NLSF Foundation Flag Football is unique because:

  • We only partner with the best Site Directors. Site Directors are High School Head Coaches who are great human beings and coach football for the right reasons

  • Our Head Coaches of each team are high school student athletes

  • Our parent volunteers are assistant coaches to the student athletes

  • We practice and play on the same day so you are not running around your city chasing kids

  • We are community based-We organize teams by school ensuring deeper relationships with classmates and parents. We do not host try-outs, combines or drafts. We believe that is for the NFL only! You sign up, you play!

  • We believe in the motto, “You will be known, you will be loved.” Therefore, upon registration, we allow families to customize their jerseys with number choice and player’s last names will be screened on the back of the jerseys. This small touch allows coaches and Site Directors to call kids by name

  • We are a one trophy league. We believe that many of life’s best lessons are learned through disappointment. We know life is not always smooth and we believe the true measure of a human being is measured how they react after getting knocked down. It is never too early to teach this lesson.

  • We strive to strike the unique competitive balance between striving to win yet keeping proper perspective of youth sports. Our league rules of playing time attempt to achieve this initiative

Contact Us

Next Level Sports

 385 1st Avenue
San Mateo, California 94401