America Scores and P.S. 173 have been teaching students' soccer and poetry for several years now. Their goal has been to bring the love of soccer, poetry and a healthy life style to our community. A lot of people have taken notice including ESPN Deportes series “Futbol in America” with Denny Alfonso. During America Scores Winter camp ESPN Deportes visited P.S.173 to interview some of our coaches and players. Denny Alfonso interviewed our very own Mr. Jimenez and Devin Rosario about soccer in America and our Washington Heights community. We can’t wait to see our students and faulty on TV representing P.S.173. ​

​The stage was set, our poems were written, and the PS173 poet-athletes were excited. It was finally time for America SCORES New York’s 14th Annual Poetry SLAM!
 
A favorite event of kids and coaches alike, the Poetry SLAM gives our talented poet-athletes the opportunity to show off their creative writing skills to peers from other schools and their families.
 
Shannon Schneeman (Executive Director) and Zach Gomes (Program Director) opened the night by welcoming all the poet-athletes as well as their coaches, teachers and families before bringing the host for the night, Natalie Caro onto the stage.
 
Many schools took the stage and did an amazing job. Then, we hit the stage with our first poet Esmarlin performing My Playground which was short and sweet, but very effective. Our girl’s team poem Kindness is Cooler received great reviews.  Our PS 173 boys, did not go down without a fight with poems entitled Why I’m Me by Devin, This is My Life by Christopher, and our group poem We Are.
 
While the judges were making some difficult decisions, our poet-athletes expressed themselves in a different way through a wildly competitive dance party! Everyone brought their best moves to the stage and definitely impressed the crowd.
 
Finally, it was time to announce the winners. Christopher received an individual Spirit Award  for the poem This is My Life. PS 173 Girls were the big champions winning America Scores Poetry Slam Champions 2017.
 
 Incredible sportsmanship and creativity was shown by all of our poet-athletes, and we could not have asked for a better SLAM!

New York Road Runners had their last weekend race of the school year. It was a  mini 10k  specifically for girls, a Girls Run. P.S.173 was represented by 6 great young girls during this race. They woke up early and headed to Central Park ready to race. They finished the mini 10k with medals to bring back home. Congrats Ladies.

Congratulations PS173 Young Runners, baseball team, girls soccer team and boys soccer team on a winning season thus far. They have all played well and won must of their games and races. Even when our teams have lost, they played well and hard. We commemorate them on their first-class effort, hard work and stupendous wins. A special shout out to Young Runners Carter Skeete, Amaury Fernandez, Jesus Soto, Destyn Quinones and Jayren Peralta for placing 2nd at the Spring Forward in Van Cortlandt Park.

Our PS173 ​Young Runners learn valuable lessons about how to set goals and make activity part of their daily lives. With the help of their coaches, students learn to run distances from 1 to 4 miles. You could imagine the wear and tear their sneakers go through. That's why it was a pleasure to see Ms. Rodriguez give them  their running shoes. Now they are ready to go the distance. Run over to our Young Runners Page to see more pictures.

This years 19 Young Runners are working hard to be the best.  The Young Runners are comprised of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. On Sunday they woke up super early to represent P.S.173 at a Times Square Run. They all did great; special acknowledgement to Audrey, Destyn, Nicolas and Dania for participating in their first race. Lets join our P.S.173 Young Runners at Van Cortlandt Park for the next race. 

We are pleased to start the America Scores spring soccer season. Our first day of practice begins March 22, 2017. The soccer teams will hopefully bring some more trophies to P.S.173 as they did during the fall season. Congratulations to the girls soccer team and Jaylyn Toliver on their awards. Lets continue with another winning season.