A. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION
Greater 69th Street Wildcats Athletic Association, Inc.

505 South 69th Street: Intersection of 69th Street and Ruskin Lane
Upper Darby, PA 19082
(610) 284-7401 @ Concession Stand
Web address: www.Greater69thStreetWildcats.org
ID# 31434 / Employer ID# 23-2919999 / United Way Donor Option # 14124

Contact Person: Carl Graham, Sr., President / Fred L. Johnson, Jr., Treasurer

B. MISSION STATEMENT

The Greater 69th Street Wildcats Athletic Association is dedicated to helping children mature physically, mentally and emotionally through athletic activities. It is the fundamental objective of this 501c3 organization to help young people build character, promote a winning attitude towards life, teach teamwork and develop leadership skills. We are dedicated to structuring our program so that each one of our players and cheerleaders understand that sports and education are linked. As a non-profit organization we will establish a professional decorum, operating like a business, but maintaining and adhering to all of the rules and regulations established for such organizations with the same non-profit status (501c3). While expecting the best from ourselves and our children, our goal is to always create the best environment, with state of the art equipment and facilities. As a point of reference it is our final objective to evolve and expand this mission to meet the ever changing needs of our communities.

C. ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The Greater 69th Street Wildcats were founded and organized in 1994 by Mr. Anthony (Tony) Jackson, Esq., Anthony Pontello, Kenneth Abney and Dr. Joel Mascara to compete in the Bert Bell Memorial Football Conference. In order to compete in this particular conference, it is necessary to field five complete teams, one for each competitive level. The teams are based on age and weight ranging from 5-15 years and Flag, 80-145lbs. During the past 12 years, the Greater 69th Street Wildcats have developed and trained over 3,500 young people, showing them (through the art of athletic competition) how to deal with adversity and maintain a winning attitude at the same time. Similarly, the organization exercises the same methodology when planning for each season. Consequently, we captured the organizations first championship title during the (1999)-football season with our 120lb team defeating the Clifton Heights Rams 45-28 at Villanova Stadium. In 2000 we were able to establish three playoff teams (80lb, 120lb, 140lb varsity clubs) and in 2001 all of these weight divisions set a conference record by competing in the Championship games at their respected weight divisions. Our 120lb was victorious in their game – defeating the Downingtown Young Whippets 24-7. In 2004 we established four playoff teams – with our 145lb Football Team making history and winning the first Bert Bell Championship for the Wildcats at the senior team level, defeating the Downingtown Young Whippets 22-16.
In 2005 the Wildcats were able to see all varsity football teams make the playoffs – and the 120lb Varsity Team won the Eastern Division Championship. The organization was afforded the opportunity, thanks to the 120lb Team Parents Committee, to send the first traveling team to play outside of the Bert Bell Conference. The 120lb Varsity Team, under the leadership of Head Coach Fred L. Johnson, Jr. received an invitation to play in the first annual Sports Made EZ Fall Football Tournament November 25th & 26th, 2005. Our team dropped the first game to a much older, stronger and faster team from Cataract, New York – seeing the Steelers steal the game 42-0. Mike Choi, President and CEO of Sports Made EZ admitted that the Cateract Steelers should have played at the 150lb level and not the 125lb level. On November 26th, playing an evenly matched Dallas-Scranton Warriors team that had just won the Championship at their level, in their league – The Wildcats overcame a first half deficit of 13-0 Dallas – to take the Warriors by the score of 33-19.

While the organization was building the football program, we were also planning for and investing in a cheerleaders program. The cheerleaders program has become a very valuable component to the Wildcats organization. It has allowed us to reach out and provide athletic activity for more children in the surrounding community. Through these two activities we are able to provide instruction, training and guidance for both boys and girls between the ages of 5-15 in the fine art of athletics.