SOAR Charter Academy is a K-8 public tuition free charter school in San Bernardino. SOAR currently services 463 students across the grade levels. SOAR offers a variety of extra-curricular activities and enrichment classes including Spanish, music, communications, art, and competitive sports. For the first time ever, SOAR had an overwhelming interest in flag football from our female population in grades 5th – 8th . Coach Mark Armenta put together SOAR’s first time ever, all girls flag football team.
As the season began, the girls gave 110% during each practice and entered the championship game undefeated. On October5, 2017, the girls took home the championship trophy against New Vision
Charter school with a score of 14 to 7. SOAR believes that many times kids fear competition, making it into something scarier or more important than it needs to be. When they compete, they realize that it wasn’t so scary after all. . Once they realize that competition is not a terrifying thing, they can take risks. They then confidence to do things that are hard or uncomfortable.