Community Education Series 2026
Suriving Youth Sports
with Stephen Borelli,
editor and writer with USA Today
editor and writer with USA Today
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
So, your kid plays sports in school: now what?
Join us for "Surviving Youth Sports", presented by Steven Borelli, editor and writer with USA Today. He'll be your guide through picking the “right” team, coach, and overall experience for your child that they'll remember for years to come.
The event will be held Wednesday, April 22nd from 6-7:30 PM at St. Michael's Country Day School as part of our Community Education Series.
This event is open to all adults on Aquidneck Island and surrounding areas! Free of charge.
Meet Coach Steve
Editor and writer with USA Today
Stephen Borelli is editor of USA TODAY Sports Weekly (formerly Baseball Weekly) and USA TODAY’s sports-related special editions. He has worked as an editor for USA TODAY since 1999. For the past three years, he has written a nationally acclaimed weekly sports parenting column (“Ask Coach Steve”) for USA TODAY. In March 2026, a compilation of the columns (“Coach Steve’s Youth Sports Survival Guide”) was released by Pediment Publishing. He spent 10 years coaching his two sons’ baseball and basketball teams. He and his wife, Colleen, are now sports parents for two high school baseball players.
In 2005, he wrote, How About That! The Life of Mel Allen, the first biography about the famous sportscaster. It was publicly praised by such personalities as CNN’s Larry King, ESPN’s Paul Finebaum and New York Yankees radio voices John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman, excerpted in The New York Times the featured in the New York Post. Borelli’s publicity interviews for the book included appearances on Fox, ESPN2, Sirius XM and WFAN sports radio in New York. He signed copies of the book at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the Library of Congress and at numerous bookstores.
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