Partnering with the Riekes Center
We believe that every potential partner is as individual and unique as the students who come to the Riekes Center. We will happily custom-design a program to fit your needs, schedule, and budget. If you are interested in exploring collaboration with the Riekes Center, or if you have questions about an existing partnership, please contact Linc Holland at lholland@riekes.org or (650) 860 – 8001.
Current Partners
The Riekes Center is deeply connected to the mid-Peninsula community, and beyond, through partnerships with schools, athletic teams, and local groups. Some of our projects include:
United States Olympic Committee
The Riekes Center offers adaptive sports programs to individuals with disabilities through its collaboration with the USOC and US Paralympics, who designated the Center as Paralympic Sport Club Menlo Park in 2011. For more information, please click here.
Athletic Republic
The Riekes Center is a proud member of the Athletic Republic. If you want to train to get better for your sport, Athletic Republic Performance Sports Training is your answer. Nation-wide, 156 training centers prove that Athletic Republic is the premier destination for intense, individualized, sport-specific training. Athletic Republic seamlessly combines science and sports to make athletes of all ages and abilities faster, more agile and more powerful. Our patented machines and proprietary programs have elevated thousands of competitors’ performance and dramatically changed the landscape of training in this country.
VA of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Livermore and San Jose
The Riekes Center partners with local VA facilities, including Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Livermore and San Jose. This partnership allows us to help veterans define and achieve their goals in Athletic Fitness, Creative Arts and Nature Awareness. Veterans currently participate in Strength and Conditioning, Archery, Wheelchair Ruby, Tai Chi, the national MOVE program (Motivating Overweight Vets Everywhere), Photography, Music and Nature Awareness programs.
Eastside Prep and Menlo School
The Freshman Wellness Program is a two-week series of classes that helps teens make meaningful and informed decisions about their physical health. Dynamic in-class instructors and certified Strength and Conditioning Coaches provide personal training routines and the technical, medical, and nutritional information necessary for each student to exercise safely and efficiently and live a long and healthy life.
After-School PE – The Riekes Center provides Athletic Fitness programs for Menlo School and Summit Public School students to earn after-school PE credits.
Summit Public Schools
The Riekes Center has a strong relationship with Summit Public Schools, which include Summit Preparatory Charter High School and Everest Public High School, both located in Redwood City, along with Summit Public School: Rainier and Summit Public School: Tahoma, which are both located in San Jose.
Creative Arts Intersession- The Riekes Center provides Summit students with an exciting opportunity to explore their creativity during two month-long Creative Arts Intersessions. Students have the opportunity to develop their skills in Hip Hop, Musical Instrument and Jam classes, Movie Making, Electronic Magazine Publishing and Black & White or Digital Photography. During the two month-long sessions, in January and May, Summit students immerse themselves in an art, then showcase their hard work at a blowout recital in June. Classes satisfy UC requirements for high school creative arts.
After-School PE – The Riekes Center also runs the after-school PE program for Summit Prep. Each student receives a personalized workout plan, specifically designed to meet his or her individual goals, as part of our CORE program.
La Entrada School
Creative Arts and Nature Awareness – Our instructors work with 32 La Entrada students every week in small groups, teaching students the basics of guitar as well as outdoor education, leadership and sense-of-place training. In addition, our video instructor teaches an animation class on site for La Entrada students.
Laurel School
Recess Supervision Program – Riekes Center coaches and instructors provide athletic supervision and play basic Nature Awareness games during recess with first- and second-grade students at Laurel School in Menlo Park.
Advocates for Athletes, LLC
Advocates for Athletes (A4A) is a local, affordable, hands-on consulting and coaching business created to help guide student athletes and their families in their pursuit of a college scholarship. A4A helps many Riekes Center students to navigate the college recruiting process with successful results.
East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring (EPATT)
Our year-round program for EPATT students focuses on Athletic Fitness programs (“The How, What, and Why of Wellness”). Our summer EPATT program serves 40 students and includes group circuit training with Strength and Conditioning Coaches as well as one-on-one mentoring by Riekes Center students in basic weightlifting techniques.
RPM (Riekes Philosophy and Methodology)
RPM is a unique, joyful and effective formula for facilitating Peer Mentoring relationships, developed by Gary Riekes. It enables care giving and care receiving to pass fluently between both people in the mentoring relationship. RPM often creates positive, transformative life outcomes for the students involved. This method is used by Menlo School along with other schools in the area. Read more
Team Training
In addition to working with individual athletes, the Riekes Center Athletic Staff is proud to train many area high school and college sports teams with group workouts:
Menlo-Atherton – Football
Eastside Prep. – Men’s & Women’s Basketball
Menlo School – All Men’s and Women’s sports teams
Menlo College – Women’s Wrestling
