A Shared Mission.
A deeper partnership between Catalyst Performance and Youth Tennis San Diego.

This proposal exists to align Catalyst Performance more completely with YTSD's mission.

For years, Catalyst has operated inside Barnes Tennis Center as the on-site performance, recovery, and injury-prevention resource for YTSD athletes, coaches, and families. Much of that work has been quiet — screenings for scholarship juniors, recovery care for high-performance players, support during events, practitioner hours uncompensated or unrecognized.

This proposal is about organizing that work formally, so the partnership's contribution to YTSD's mission becomes legible to coaches, families, donors, and the board. Everything that follows is framed around YTSD's own five pillars of whole-child development — physical, mental, emotional, educational, social — because alignment with your mission is the entire point.

The pages ahead propose a partnership framework, a set of concrete initiatives fully funded by Catalyst, and the operational infrastructure — screening protocols, athlete reports, coach dashboards, donor products, and annual impact reporting — to deliver them.

Years of on-property investment and mission-aligned work.

Catalyst has operated inside Barnes Tennis Center since opening on-property. What follows is the infrastructure we've built, the services we've rendered, and the reputation we've earned — much of it in direct service to YTSD athletes, coaches, and families.

The reputation we've earned

Facility built and maintained on YTSD property

• Performance Gym — elite-training equipment for athletes at every level of the Barnes pathway
• Cardio Lab — state-of-the-art treadmill and cardio equipment
• Outdoor Training Zone with synthetic turf, positioned to support on-court transitions for YTSD athletes
• The Wellness Lounge — cold plunge, compression, percussion therapy, guided recovery. Built out and opened as a new recovery amenity on the Barnes campus, with full SOP delivered to YTSD leadership in December 2025. Red light therapy coming 2026.
• Vald performance-screening stack — ForceDecks, DynaMo, and Vald Hub deployed on-site, producing auto-generated co-branded athlete reports and a coach-facing dashboard — the infrastructure that makes the rest of this proposal feasible.

Services we've delivered to the Barnes community

• Athlete performance training for YTSD competitive and high-performance juniors
• Personal training and small-group fitness for Barnes members and families
• Physical therapy, sports massage therapy, and stretch therapy
• Certified athletic training
• Tennis-specific screening and recovery care for scholarship and full-paying YTSD athletes
• Event performance and recovery support during San Diego Open and on-site tournaments, including practitioner access for players, coaches, and staff

We are not a generic gym that happens to rent space at Barnes. We are a racquet-sports performance facility that has quietly been doing mission-aligned work for YTSD athletes for years — much of it uncompensated, much of it unseen. The proposal that follows is about making that work visible, structured, and measurable against YTSD's mission.

The injury gap is real and addressable.

Youth tennis has specific, well-documented injury patterns that generic fitness providers are not trained to address:

• Shoulder — glenohumeral internal rotation deficit (GIRD), rotator cuff imbalance. Present in elite juniors even without symptoms.
• Elbow — medial and lateral epicondylitis, a predictable consequence of volume and technique.
• Lumbar spine — kick-serve hyperextension linked to pars stress fractures and spondylolysis in junior tennis.
• Hip and core asymmetry — dominant-side hip internal rotation loss is near-universal in one-sided sport.
• Load management — playing more than 40 USTA singles matches per year materially increases medical withdrawal risk.

A dedicated, tennis-specific performance and screening partner on-site — speaking the same language as USTA Player Development's injury-prevention protocols and the USTA High Performance Profile — is not an amenity. It is infrastructure.

Every initiative maps to YTSD's five pillars of whole-child development.

YTSD's identity is whole-child development across five pillars — physical, mental, emotional, educational, and social. This proposal organizes everything Catalyst will deliver under those same five pillars so the partnership's contribution to the mission is legible to coaches, families, donors, and the board.

Five focused commitments. Fully funded by Catalyst. Easy for both teams to execute.

We deliberately scoped this to five. Each is something Catalyst can deliver well, something YTSD's team can support without heavy operational lift, and something that produces a visible, story-friendly outcome for athletes, families, donors, and the board.

Supporting infrastructure, not separate deliverables

These aren't "initiatives" — they're the operational machinery that makes the five deliverables work. Catalyst funds and maintains them.

• Athlete report — auto-generated co-branded PDF delivered within 60 seconds of every HP Screen closing. See Section 09.
• Coach dashboard — Vald Hub–powered view for YTSD HP coaches showing who's flagged, what to do, and how the squad is trending. See Section 10.
• Annual partnership impact report — co-branded, board-ready, donor-ready, grant-ready. Published each October at the Gala. See Section 15.

30 minutes in. Branded report out. Zero manual data entry.

Catalyst's Vald ForceDecks, DynaMo, and Vald Hub platform compress what was a 45-minute manual screen into a 30-minute experience that produces a higher-quality, more reproducible result. Any trained Catalyst practitioner can deliver it solo. A 40-athlete HP squad can be cleared in a week.

The 30-minute protocol

What Vald does. What the practitioner does.

Flagging thresholds (pre-configured in Vald Hub)

Eligibility and cost

150+ scholarship athletes screened in a day. Free. Co-branded. Sponsor-ready.

A compressed, mobile version of the HP Screen built for mass delivery at Barnes and high-volume outreach sites. Vald ForceDecks and DynaMo travel to the event for the power and strength stations. Athletes cycle through a 5-station circuit in 10 minutes, receive a take-home scorecard, and — if flagged — are booked into a full HP Screen at Barnes within 14 days. Parents attend a concurrent education session.

Event format

• Duration: 6 hours (typically 9 AM – 3 PM)
• Athletes per event: 120–180
• Athlete experience: 20 minutes total (10 screening + 10 education)
• Staff: 8 Catalyst practitioners + 2 event leads + 2–4 YTSD coach volunteers
• Cost: Fully funded by Catalyst; optionally underwritten by a "Sponsor a Screen" donor

The circuit

The take-home card

Cadence

• August/September — Back-to-school Performance Day at Barnes
• February/March — Mid-season Performance Day, Barnes + City Heights outreach
• May/June (optional) — End-of-school Performance Day at high-volume NJTL site
• November (optional) — Pre-tournament screening for YTSD national-level travelers

Strategic access, not open gates.

The Wellness Lounge is new and operational. We want to turn it into a visible YTSD member benefit without letting the economics run away from us. The offer below mirrors YTSD's own scholarship model — most generous for the athletes who most need access, structured and fair for paying members, and protected at the upper end so Catalyst can sustain the program.

The tiered offer

Services included by tier

What Catalyst runs. What YTSD supports.

• Catalyst runs: booking system, check-in, tier verification (simple look-up against YTSD roster), service delivery, consumables, staff time, Lounge maintenance
• YTSD supports: an annual roster of scholarship families eligible for Tier A (refreshed each season); inclusion of the Lounge in member onboarding and family orientation; two co-branded announcements per year in the YTSD newsletter; signage at Barnes pointing families to the Lounge

Event activation — the Gala connection

The Wellness Lounge also becomes a physical asset at YTSD's major events. At the Wimbledon-Chic Gala each October, Catalyst sets up a mini "Recovery Experience" — compression boots, percussion therapy, a practitioner on site — that Gala guests can sample. It's a high-visibility donor touchpoint that converts directly into the Sponsor a Screen fundraising moment later in the evening (see Section 13).

One page. Three priorities. Delivered before the athlete leaves the building.

Every HP Screen ends with an auto-generated, co-branded athlete report pushed to the athlete, parent, and coach within 60 seconds of the session closing. Below is exactly what they receive — rendered with sample data for a 14-year-old right-handed HP junior named Maria.

What each element of the report does

• Co-branded header — every report shows Catalyst, Barnes, and YTSD together. One report, three brands, every time a scholarship kid walks out of a screen.
• Plain-English headline — the paragraph a busy parent can read in 30 seconds and know what's important.
• Body indicator diagram — color-coded dots at every screened joint. Green = OK. Yellow = monitor in training. Red = refer out and modify load. Visible at a glance, accessible to any family regardless of reading level.
• Full scorecard — every Vald ForceDecks, DynaMo, and ROM measurement with traffic-light flags. For the coach and the physician, not the kid.
• Top 3 priorities — ranked, each with what it is, why it matters, what to do, and a rescreen timeline. The only actionable page parents actually need.
• QR to personalized home plan — auto-built from the athlete's flagged items. Scan → video playlist.
• Visible coach note — what the YTSD coach sees is shown to the athlete and parent. Transparency is the point. No secret medical notes.
• Sponsor attribution — for Sponsor a Screen cohorts, the donor's name appears on every sponsored athlete's report.

Coaches should never have to chase a screening result.

YTSD HP and competitive coaches get a private, co-branded dashboard built on Vald Hub and extended with Catalyst-authored coach notes and YTSD-specific squad groupings. Below is what a YTSD HP coach sees when they sign in on a Monday morning.

How coaches use it

• Monday AM check-in — see who got flagged over the weekend, who's due for a rescreen, who came back from a referral. Two-minute read.
• Click any athlete — full trend, clinical coach note, recommended training modification, parent contact, referral status.
• Read the "coach tip of the week" — squad-level pattern Catalyst surfaced from the week's screens, with a concrete Tuesday-practice adjustment.
• Trend panel — year-over-year squad improvement, ready to show parents at conferences and the board in the annual impact report.
• Monday digest email — same data pushed to inbox if the coach prefers email.

Access and privacy

• Coaches see only athletes in their assigned squads. No one sees everything except the HP head coach and the Catalyst lead.
• Every athlete has a signed parent consent authorizing coach access. Consent is revocable.
• Medical detail (specific physician, diagnosis) is restricted to the HP head coach by default.
• All access logged; monthly audit; annual security review with YTSD leadership.

Build timeline

The document YTSD's grant lead attaches to every application.

Published every October, aligned with the Wimbledon-Chic Gala. Co-branded, ~16 pages, designed for three audiences in one document: the YTSD board, individual donors, and grant-funder reviewers. The mockup below shows the report template — what categories of data and which deliverables YTSD's grant lead will have to work with each year. Specific numbers are intentionally left as placeholders; they get filled in from the actual program data each July.

Why this report supports YTSD's grant lead

• Cite-able partner-contribution figure — Most grant applications require disclosure of matching funds or in-kind partner contributions. The annual in-kind total is documented, line-itemed, and ready to drop into any budget narrative.
• Outcome metrics, not activity metrics — "Pre-clinical injuries caught early" and longitudinal asymmetry change are outcome data, which funders consistently weight more heavily than headcounts.
• Mission-language alignment — Every initiative is mapped to YTSD's five pillars in YTSD's own words. Grant applications that mirror an organization's stated framework score higher in reviews.
• An athlete story already drafted — Funders want narrative, not just numbers. Each report includes a de-identified consented story in a format ready for grant copy.
• Donor attribution proof — Documents existing donor activity and converts naturally to a new-donor pitch in the same submission.
• Methodology page — Vald protocol, consent framework, data privacy. The credibility section that wins funder reviews on rigor.
• Co-branded throughout — Catalyst, Barnes, YTSD on every page. Reinforces partnership equity for funders evaluating organizational capacity.

Production cadence

• July 1 — Data freeze (fiscal year end for partnership reporting)
• August — First draft prose + data validation between Catalyst and YTSD
• September — YTSD leadership review and edits
• Early October — Design, proof, final
• Mid-October — Publication at the Wimbledon-Chic Gala; physical copies distributed at the Gala and to the board
• November onward — Live and attached to all grant submissions for the year that follows

A new fundraising product YTSD's development team can sell tomorrow.

Named donors underwrite the screening experience for a cohort of scholarship athletes and see the impact of that gift in a way most charitable donations never get to deliver — photo content, athlete stories, a coach debrief, and a per-cohort impact report. Tax-deductible through YTSD.

We screened Maria at our first Performance Day. Her shoulder was flagged — right-side internal rotation was 22° short. Without screening, she would have served into her off-season, worsened the asymmetry, and likely been out by March with a rotator injury. Instead, her coach dropped her serve volume for four weeks, we put her on a targeted mobility plan, and at her rescreen her shoulder was back in range. She played a full season.

Turning the screening program into a grant-fundable, Gala-fundraised YTSD asset.

Sponsor a Screen is the product. The Grant & Gala Partnership is how YTSD actually sells it — through targeted grant submissions and through a purpose-built moment at the Wimbledon-Chic Gala. This section is the operational playbook.

Why this structure works legally and financially

Catalyst is a for-profit entity. Most foundations and sports-philanthropy funders only grant to 501(c)(3) organizations. The clean path is:

1. YTSD (EIN 95-6095644) is the fiscal recipient of every grant and every Gala-restricted donation
2. Grant proceeds flow to a restricted "Athlete Performance & Injury Prevention Fund" within YTSD
3. Catalyst delivers screenings, Performance Days, and coach/athlete care as a contracted service provider to YTSD, drawing from that restricted fund at a per-athlete cost
4. YTSD reports outcomes to funders using the data Catalyst produces (aggregate de-identified metrics, athlete stories with consent, impact report)

This structure keeps YTSD in full control of the funding relationship, preserves donor tax-deductibility, and turns Catalyst's delivery capacity into a grant-fundable program.

Target grant sources (ranked by fit)

What Catalyst delivers to YTSD's grant lead

YTSD already has a dedicated grant lead who owns the funder relationships, submissions, and reporting cycle. Catalyst does not want to duplicate or insert itself into that workflow. What we provide is the supporting documentation their team can drop into any submission — content, data, and storytelling — so the screening program becomes easy to attach to any application they're already writing.

The Wimbledon-Chic Gala activation

The Gala is where the year's fundraising for Sponsor a Screen gets concentrated. Four specific moves:

A realistic Year 1 target

Four things to make this real.

A simple annual partnership review with shared KPIs.

• Number of YTSD athletes screened (HP and mass)
• Number of scholarship athletes served (AST / NJTL / HP)
• Number of coach-education contact hours delivered
• Number of parent-education attendees
• Number of event-support hours at YTSD-hosted tournaments
• Number of donor dollars raised via Sponsor a Screen
• De-identified aggregate injury-risk indicators, year over year
• Catalyst in-kind contribution totaled (for the annual impact report)

Quarterly check-ins between Catalyst (Alex, Rachel, and Brian) and YTSD leadership. Annual joint impact report signed by both organizations for donor and member distribution.

From partnership signing to the first annual impact report.

Permission to go deeper.

YTSD has built a 70-year institution on a deceptively simple idea: that a sport can change a child's life if you remove the barriers to access and surround that child with the right people. Catalyst Performance exists on-property at Barnes because we believe the same thing — that the people around a young athlete, and the quality of the physical care they receive, determine whether tennis builds them up or breaks them down before they ever get the chance to know what they were capable of.

This proposal is about aligning Catalyst's work more completely with that mission, and about giving the partnership the structure, visibility, and measurable impact it deserves.

We would like the opportunity to present this proposal in person — first to you, Ryan, and then together to the YTSD board — and to begin in whatever form makes the most sense for the next season.

Thank you for considering it.

Alex Golding, Rachel Ziner & Brian Wilson
Catalyst Performance
Barnes Tennis Center