Finish Strong Kids

PO Box 1188, Highwood, IL 60015

mapPO Box 1188, Highwood, IL 60015

About

Finish Strong Kids offers a wide range of team sports and activities, including Basketball, Basketball Skills Classes, Basketball Leagues, Flag-Football, Soccer, Floor Hockey, and Schoolyard Sports (SYS) classes. The program also runs Summer Sports Camp, After School Camp, Day Off School Camp, Summer camp, enrichment classes, sports leagues, flag-football leagues, and Finish Strong Birthdays. Schoolyard Sports (SYS) classes introduce Pre-K children to sports and cooperative play, and Finish Strong offers developmental basketball leagues and skills classes as well as developmental and fun flag-football leagues for 1st–3rd graders outdoors at the Highwood Field.

• Ages: 4–13 years old

Finish Strong Kids states that all of its offered programming involves team sports, with teamwork always emphasized. The organization describes itself as a year-round factory of fun that offers camps all year long and notes that there is no better sports environment than Finish Strong Sports Camp. Finish Strong Birthdays are described as having energy and spirit like no other party, and the program also highlights features such as elite field trips, delicious hot lunches, fresh fruit, awards, and role models.

Every coach has excelled in sports at the high-school level and some at the collegiate level, and the staff is described as experienced and professional. The core of the staff has worked together for nearly a decade, and the organization states that its staff is 100% passionate about kids and making sports fun. Finish Strong Kids reports having an experienced leadership team and emphasizes that its coaches address everyone by name, encourage participants, and create a fun environment for the entire family, including brothers and sisters.

Finish Strong Kids states that it takes great pride in teaching children how to have fun, make new friends and grow into good people through sports, and that it takes molding the next generation of the community very seriously. The organization notes that when families participate in a Finish Strong program they are considered family, and that it is in constant communication with families, aiming to be proactive and responsive in parent communication. The program reports serving 0+ participants annually, 0+ communities, and 0+ years serving the North Shore, and describes itself as operating with 0% passion. For families looking for girls basketball, Finish Strong Kids directs them to its sister program, North Shore Stars.

Last updated January 15, 2026.

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