Park News

Go ahead an clear your calendar this weekend. The @spydercup Is going down! It’ll feature a demo from the largest concentration of pros and legends the park has ever seen on Saturday. Check out that list of participants! Then on Sunday an am contest! Email stevesteadham@gmail.com for details and to enter. Additionally there’s a street and pool camp being held on … Read More

Thanks to the help of some wonderful skate parents/relatives and skaters, the Kennesaw Skatepark hosted another successful local’s contest awarding Reece Rung a certificate and an Ambush skateboard deck for Skater of the Month at the conclusion of the event. Parents and skaters worked together to develop the Freestyle Jam Contest at 3 locations in the Skatepark.  They also took … Read More

This last weekend, the Kennesaw Skatepark was the scene of the Adidas Skate Copa skate event. Foundation Board member, Mr. Lee Elliott, used the Cobb Sports Alliance Activity Survey to assess the economic impact of this event and arrived at $73,250.  The event was a medium size event for this skatepark.  The skatepark has had larger events since its opening and … Read More

The board of directors for the Swift Cantrell Park Foundation wish to send a BIG THANK YOU! to the scouts and scout leaders of Troop 422 for helping with the recent very successful Swift-Cantrell Classic 5K run. Everyone was impressed with the boys, their wonderful adult leaders in uniform, and all the volunteers certainly doing a good deed with lasting … Read More

Anyone walking into the Ben Robinson Community Center last night (5-4-15) would have seen a beehive of activity coming from members of the Swift Cantrell Foundation Board and the Parent-Skater Support Team, a committee of local parents, grandparents, and skaters representing the skateboard community at the Kennesaw Skatepark. The 1000 bags will be distributed to the runners at the annual Swift … Read More