These days, people are more active, more interested and more educated than ever before. We’re trained in fitness, sports, healthy eating—even iPhones. It’s almost impossible to accurately describe anyone simply using the word "trainer." In honor of National Athletic Training Month, we want to share with you the fundamental differences between an athletic trainer and a personal trainer.

The Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority announced in February that it selected the venerable New York City-based not-for-profit, Asphalt Green, to operate its new stateof-the-art, 52,000-square-foot community center, which will be located in the base of Liberty Green and Liberty Luxe, two residential towers located on North End Avenue between Murray and Warren Streets. The center is slated to open in January 2012. Here, New York Family Sports will give you a sneak peak at the plans for the brand new center that is sure to bring the excellence of Asphalt Green’s Upper East Side sports programs to families all across Manhattan.

If you've spent any time in Riverside Park, you’ve most certainly noticed the buzz of contagious laughter and enthusiasm pouring off the baseball diamonds. Those are the Kids of Summer. Their practices and games not only instruct droves of Manhattan’s youth, but also provide a one-of-a-kind day camp experience.

Whether you are 13 or 31, the Camp of Champions (COC) snowboard, ski and mountain bike camp at Whistler Blackcomb offers enthusiasts the opportunity of a lifetime—the chance to train with the pros and spend a summer in the snow.

The second annual MSC Kick-off Classic Tournament needs you! Volunteers are being sought right now to help run the tournament, which takes place March 5-7 on Randall’s Island, Icahn Stadium and Tibbetts Brook Soccer Field in Yonkers. The inaugural 2009 MSC Kick-off Classic was a huge success, quickly putting MSC on the map as one of the top youth soccer tournaments in the Northeast, and this year, with boys’ and girls’ teams in the U10-U16 age groups, promises to be even bigger.

Camp Winaukee is a prestigious all-boys, all-sports, all-day sleep away camp located on the pine scented shores of gorgeous Lake Winnipesauke in New Hampshire. I spent five summers there where I learned skills in every sport imaginable from Division I college athletes and coaches, the great preponderance of whom came from North Carolina. Most of the campers hailed from New York and New Jersey.

You play sports. You play hard. And sometimes you think to yourself, “What would I do right now if I hurt my teeth?” But you’re a tough, trained competitor. You have no fear in a situation like that. You just want to fix it. Keep playing. You want a solution.

The Metropolitan Wrestling Association and Beat the Streets Wrestling, Inc., in conjunction with the Mayor’s Office, The NYC Sports Commission, the Harlem Armory and the three groups that offer high school wrestling in the city (the PSAL; the CHSAA; the NYSAISAA) will host the seventh year of the Mayor’s Cup of wrestling at the Harlem Armory.

Just last month, on a picture perfect summer’s day, I was walking through the streets of Laguna Beach, California—about as far west of New York as you can get—when I walked past an elderly man who had a chess board set up on a picnic table overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

It’s the still the No. 1 youth sport in NYC. It just is.