Name: Will Taschler

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Access, Equity and Inequity in Youth Sports

Date of Fieldwork: January 19, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Steady Buckets

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

On the 19th of January 2023, my group had the opportunity to meet with the founder and owner of Steady Buckets, a non-profit basketball organization located in Manhattan, New York. Throughout Coach Macky’s childhood, he always loved sports. Later on, he started experimenting with coaching. He realized he really liked it and wanted to take one step further. He thought that there should’ve been an easy to access, good quality basketball training program. That is why he founded Steady Buckets in 2010.

They started out well, reaching about 50 kids, but that was just the start. For years the number just kept doubling and doubling until they had a maximum capacity. They kept evolving during the years. When COVID-19 hit in the early 2020’s, Steady Buckets gained extreme popularity with its online classes. It was running throughout the day making it very accessible. He said that doing these online workouts helped gain them popularity even when the online era was over, he noticed a lot of new faces that he saw from zoom, in the facility, which made him very happy.