Our Mission is to Build Character and Resiliency, One Play at a Time!

Our Core Values are:

• Safety First & Always
• Team & Family
• Physical & Character Growth

SHAKER on three, FAMILY on six!

1-2-3: SHAKER!  4-5-6: FAMILY!

A few years ago, the Shaker Sports Boosters Association was reborn.  At the initial re-launch meeting, there was a tremendous amount of attention placed on the lack of diversity and talent scaffolding for many of the high school sports at that time, including football.  SYFL looks to build an inclusive, financially healthy, and sustainable 501c3 organization to solve this issue inside of Shaker Heights forever.

As a community, we are committed to attracting our best athletes who desire to play football at the youth level, before they are able to create bonds in other organizations outside of Shaker.  We desire to provide the best possible vehicle for our youth athletes to grow as people of character, as athletes who love to compete, and together as a strong supportive team in our community. With so many amazing upper school educational options available in Northeast Ohio, hopefully our organization's focus on safety, team, and growth will be a strong recruiting tool for keeping our best and brightest student athletes playing together throughout their athletic career in Shaker Schools.

As an organization, we fully support youth athletic engagement with all of our community youth organizations like SYHA (Hockey), SYBL (Baseball), SYSA (Soccer), SYLA (Lacrosse), Shaker Sharks (swimming), along with others in the community who provide youth basketball, wrestling, and many others.  Further, we fully support youth athletes playing multiple sports throughout the year.

As players get bigger and stronger and the hitting gets harder, we understand that not everyone on our youth teams will end up playing high school football.  At the same time, we feel that there is no better time to try football than right now.  Because youth players are younger, smaller, and slower, we feel that there is no better time to teach the proper fundamentals. Since we engrain safety and a true understanding of the pace and dangers of the game into everything that we do, our players who continue on their football journey will be far better prepared to safely succeed at higher levels.

Whichever sports or activities our children choose to pursue in high school and beyond, we hope that our youth organization will provide amazing physical, athletic, character, and emotional growth for our children.  We never know which sport or activity our children will find their passion.  We hope to provide another avenue for them to find growth and success on their life's journey.