About Centreville Upward Sports
Founded in 1995 by Caz McCaslin in Spartanburg, SC, Upward Sports has grown to become the world’s largest Christian sports league for children. The first-class sports programming—which includes basketball, flag football, soccer and cheerleading—provides a fun sports experience based on healthy competition for kids, teaching skills for the sports arena and values for life.
Jesus Christ is the center of what we do during the season. Practices include time for coach-led devotions. All our games begin with a referee-led prayer.
Centreville United Methodist Church Upward Basketball and Cheerleading is a partner ministry of Upward Unlimited™ that includes some 2,400 churches and 500,000 kids nationwide.
Every child receives equal playing time across the eight-game season. Our games are fun and competitive, though we don’t keep score in Kindergarten through 2nd grade divisions and never keep league standings. Our trained volunteer coaches emphasize both fundamentals and character development during practices and games.