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DYRS Featured on WUSA9 for Rehabilitative Basketball Program

Date Released: 
Fri, 01/18/2013

DYRS Featured on WUSA9 for Rehabilitative Basketball Program

DYRS was recognized for its New Beginnings Youth Development Center basketball program in a news feature broadcast by WUSA9. The segment centers on the how the New Beginnings basketball team allows court-involved youth the chance to use athletics as a rehabilitative tool to learn discipline, teamwork, accountability, sportsmanship and selflessness.

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