America SCORES Seattle provides elementary school students from under-served communities with a five-day-a-week after school program combining soccer, literacy, and service learning. With teamwork as the unifying value, America SCORES Seattle inspires youth to lead healthy lifestyles, be engaged students and become agents of change in their communities.
William W. is one of the two students who will be representing Seattle in the National Poetry SLAM on April 16th in New York City. William has been working hard practicing his poem and is looking forward to the monumental evening. Here is your chance to learn a little bit more about William before the big event: 
What is Love? 
Lock Up Your Meanness
by: My V. of Maple Elementary
When you lock up your meanness
The sun rolls high through the wide sapphire sky
and the cloud makes a smile
When you lock up your meanness
Your dreams can come true
Like you wanna be the main event and full attention
like no person was before!
When you lock up your meanness
You set free a happy and joyful
Emotion in your heart
When you lock up your meanness
Your friends will always be there for you
and it feels like you’re in a heavenly spot light
When you lock up your meanness
It feels great like a garden had burst into life
with happiness and joy
That’s what happens
when you lock up your meanness
And throw it away
My Name Is
by: Siua V. of Maple Elementary
My name is Siua
I am 9 years old
I was born in Tonga
It is located in the South Pacific
There are a lot of lizards there.
It is 30 hours by plane from here.
When I came to America,
I didn’t know anybody
Now I have many friends,
Especially my soccer teammates.
"A Recipe For Me"
by: Anthony W, 5th Grader
Highland Park Elementary
Dunlap Elementary Girls perform at the Poetry Slam!
Sounders FC star Lamar Neagle speaks to the SCORES teams about "taking care of the little things"
Seattle Police Sgt. Jay Shin talks about the impact poetry has on his life 
Seattle poet Matt Gano encourages the teams to keep dreaming!
Maple Elementary Boys
Roxhill Elementary Girls
Bailey Gatzert Elementary Boys
The 9th Annual Poetry Slam! is tonight 5:30-7pm at Town Hall at Eighth and Seneca!
Judges have been announced for our 9th annual Poetry Slam! to be held Friday, November 18 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Town Hall at Eighth and Seneca (1119 8th Avenue, Seattle).
Seattle Sounders FC presents America SCORES Seattle’s 9th Annual Poetry Slam! on Friday, November 18th. The Poetry Slam!, the culminating event of the SCORES Fall Season curriculum - The Power of Poetry, will feature more than 160 elementary school students from Seattle’s underserved neighborhoods performing their own original works of poetry. For many of our children, reciting their original poetry on a public stage is the first time in their lives they have been publicly celebrated for their accomplishments. The event will showcase poets from Bailey Gatzert, Dunlap, Highland Park, Maple and Roxhill Elementary Schools.
Happy Halloween to all from everyone here at SCORES. As a special treat we present to you six of the scariest Halloween poems by the SCORES poet-athletes! 
Hip-hop star Psalm One will be coming to Seattle to co-write and record an original song with the SCORES poet-athletes at Roxhill Elemetary! Psalm One is traveling to Seattle as part of the ASCAP Sondwriter Residency @ America SCORES, where she will also be visiting SCORES sites in Milwaukee, Bay Area, Denver & DC. 