About Us

 

In March 2001, Toi Patrice Baylor, a physical education teacher, boy's AAU coach and  collegiate women's assistant basketball coach established the Baylor Youth Foundation (BYF). The BYF offers a wide range of services and resources to help its affiliates to provide educational, cultural, social, mentoring and recreational programs for youth from ages 5 - 18 years of age. We recognized the necessity to incorporate educational enrichment activities to spark youth curiosity and love of learning. We also recognized the necessity to foster the self-worth of children, to develop their self-esteem and to build character. The Foundation fulfills this mission through its focus on assisting youth; particularly minorities and those disadvantaged by poverty through educational enrichment activities, artistic, cultural and social programs outside their immediate environment. We exposed the children of Indiana, Illinois & Wisconsin areas to so many recruiting opportunities than any other program. Many players have been recruited by Division I & II colleges through our NCAA exposure tournaments, High school Classic and AAU leagues and traveling teams.  

 

Vision

The Baylor Youth Foundation is the urban umbrella organization for the inner city children, which provides services to students to improve their livelihood. We serve the youth of the community through educational and recreational enrichment programs. All activities have as their goal to increase literacy levels in reading, math and computer literacy. This program creates a safe, competitive and character-building environment through recreational enrichment activities includes our yearly AAU Basketball league, traveling teams, camps, exposure tournaments/events, and college assistance programs.

Recreational Goals

1. To encourage participants in sports activities to play competitively that exposes them to a variety of opportunities such as: diverse/style group of players, collegiate recruiting opportunities, and life long lessons of survival skills.
   
   
2. To bring the best competition to Northwest Indiana to our sanctioned AAU & certified NCAA tournaments that include youth from different ethnic/cultural backgrounds, a variety of fundamental skill levels, and a love to compete in organized sporting events.
   
   
3. To encourage participants in sports activities to help youth develop self-esteem and learn lessons about cooperation and conflict resolution.
   
   
4. To provide recreational and physical activities to develop physical skills and provide organized sports activities to disadvantaged youth.
5. To provide college recruiting opportunities to our BYF student athletes.