SOLARIS SPORTING CLUB PLOIESTI

About Us
Solaris Sporting Club was established and legally registered in September 2010 as a non-profit, non-governmental organization, and is a project dedicated to children, based on the many benefits a team sport like basketball may bring to their lives. Among the first steps made by our members towards a bringing a change for the better in the lifestyle and health of youth are beginners’ basketball lessons for boys and girls, but also facilitating the access to these lessons to children in rural areas and to those in special schools or foster care.
The purpose of the club is to offer a healthy alternative to the ever-growing trend of sedentariness. Taking part in a sport will not only develop coordination, resilience, balance, force and agility, but also self-esteem, the belief in one’s own powers and abilities. Furthermore, learning to communicate with team-mates as well as with adversaries, players will gain decisional autonomy and assume responsibility for these decisions. Solidarity and tactical spirit, friendship, respect for those around us – even when we perceive them as adversaries, discipline, fair-play, self-control – these are the strong points that our projects aim to develop.
The physical benefits (preventing heart disease, improving immunity, better blood-flow and oxygenation to the tissues, better development of bone structure, heart, muscles and lungs) are accompanied by the psychological, emotional, social and intellectual ones.
The project currently underway, regarding support offered to children in orphanages and foster care, as well as those in special schools, through sports in general and basketball in particular, has offered our members the opportunity to move from the professional approach to basketball, to a social one. The interest shown with regard to the beneficial effects of sports to the psychological development of children has allowed us to implement the project titled “Basketball – A New Beginning”. The aptitudes developed by these children, regardless of their home environment, will certainly have a long-lasting effect in their lives – sports will help them develop better focus on study activities, improving their school results.
Our Activities
Social activities
The project regarding offering support through basketball to children in foster homes and special school was started through our members’ intent to shift focus from professional aspects of basketball to social ones. The interest for the problematic of developing children’s abilities through sports enabled us to implement “Basketball – A New Beginning”.
Camps.
Starting with 2011, trying to add value to free time, we have organized ski camps in winter, and scouting and horse-riding camps in summer, on a yearly basis, trying to offer children an opportunity to get involved in sports, as well as a pleasant and less typical way of spending their school breaks. From skiing lessons in the middle of nature, to games around the campfire, orientation lessons, archery, rock-climbing and zip-lining, paintball, mountain-biking and scouting activities: construction of shelters and flotation devices, survival techniques. On horse-riding camps, in addition to riding and caring for horses, children also learned Szekler baseball and martial arts.
Competitions
Competitions are an important side to any sports, and organizing them is also an important experience, both to players and members of our organization. Access to competitions helps children learn the spirit of a competition and fair-play, in addition to accepting and dealing with both the winner’s and the loser’s position – managing these situations is an important life lesson, useful in the long run. It is necessary for children to learn to accept failure as a natural step in becoming better, and also to realize that success entails long and assiduous constant efforts: exceptional performance an only be achieved by those who are willing to dedicate time and liveliness to this goal – principles of evolution both in sports, as well as in day-to-day live. Starting with 2011, our teams have competed in multiple national competitions organized by the Romanian Federation of Basketball, as well as other national and international competitions organized by sports clubs from Romania and abroad, as well as competitions we have organized ourselves.

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