Team More Than Meets Its GOALS

The Disney GOALS program for underprivileged youth has produced its first ice hockey champions: the Jeffrey Lynne Powerful Pintails. The team, honored for its achievement recently by the Anaheim City Council, is one of six original GOALS teams.

Participants in GOALS--Growth Opportunities through Athletics, Learning and Service--compete in ice hockey and roller hockey matches. Nearly 400 children are enrolled in the program, which includes academic tutoring, job training and community service.

In recognition of their championship, the Powerful Pintails were presented with the GOALS Cup, a stainless steel trophy fashioned out of a discarded fire extinguisher found during a community cleanup in the Jeffrey Lynne neighborhood.

David Wilk, GOALS executive director, said the trophy is “a metaphor for our whole program. . . . With attention and a little imagination, something once considered worthless is now considered a remarkable prize.”