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Dawson Community Center
Your hub for sports, recreation, and community connection in San Antonio.
3.6(5 reviews)
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Your hub for sports, recreation, and community connection in San Antonio.
Dawson Community Center is a vibrant public facility in San Antonio offering a range of sports, recreational activities, and event spaces for all ages. With amenities like soccer clinics, youth basketball leagues, and rental rooms for private events, we foster community engagement and healthy lifestyles. Our dedicated staff strives to provide a welcoming environment, though we continuously work to improve coaching reliability and conflict resolution to ensure a positive experience for every visitor.
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Free and paid clinics for soccer, basketball, and other sports to develop skills in a supportive setting.
Affordable rental of rec rooms and facilities for private events like baby showers, parties, and meetings.
Organized youth basketball tournaments and leagues focused on novice players and team building.
Day camps and activities for children during school breaks, promoting recreation and social interaction.
Various drop-in activities and programs designed to engage families and individuals in active play.
Under estimated facility. It has a great positive, old-school edition, atmosphere and attitude. Enjoy bringing my son here.
Went to this facility for a city wide community center youth basketball tournament. I was very disappointed in the workers who are supposed to be San Antonio Youth Advisors. First off, there was a older hispanic man who was passive aggressive staring down a female because she was talking to her OWN child during a basketball game. This mother was nowhere near any other children, I'm going to say a good 20 feet from any other human being. The hispanic man informed the mother that she could not check on her son and insisted he would throw her out of the facility if she did not listen. As any mother should do, she disregarded the "passive aggressive old man" and talked to her son for about 1 minute and then proceeded back to her bleacher seat. The community hourly employee STARED her down as if she was a criminal in a jail house field. It was like he was going to put his hands on her, it was a typical hispanic male power trip. I wish I would have asked for the man's name cause his behavior and unacceptable tactics to try to intimidate the mother was not something any female/person should go through. (especially from a City Recreation Facility worker). Secondly, the environment that Dawson Community Center put these kids in was very eye opening. As I understand the San Antonio Youth Basketball League should be a learning process for kids. The kids on the team should be novice players who just started playing. At this facility there was no teaching being done. The refs were not doing a great job and tensions were high. Two players pushed each other and were thrown out the game in the third quarter. As an educator/coach myself, I take elementary conflicts like the one seen as a TEACHING and LEARNING moment. Unfortunately, the two best players of both teams were instead thrown out. Please know there were no punches thrown, no reluctancy from either player on their bad behavior, one player was crying and immediately showed remorse for participating in such behavior. It was very sad to see that the adults/community workers who should be TEACHING during these moments, instead decided to dismiss both players. In middle school, high school, and even NBA games no player is thrown out for a shove. Both players should have received technicals, should have been counseled/reprimanded for their behavior and the COACH should have been allowed to discipline each of their own. Throwing a child/player out was not the LESSON to be taught here. In contrary it was a GREAT teaching moment. Self control, high stress basketball, keeping your composure to stay in the game is the lesson that should have been taught. Finally, the "security" bald hispanic man (or very little hair) should not be allowed to work at a COMMUNITY CENTER if he cannot control how he tries to intimate people. The refs need more direction in how to call the novice level games to help control emotions of both players and parents. The community center managers need to go to coaching clinics to help with running and maintaining a good league. Now I realize you get what you pay for. This ten dollar league should have surpassed any expectations I had. I mean it was just ten dollars. But, being an AAU parent, TYFA parent, and CYS parent, I am always in the environment of teaching and learning. I guess I expected a lot more from a SAN ANTONIO League who uses tax money and grants for the betterment of San Antonio. The higher ups need to look into the consistency of their different recreational centers and ensure the safety of all players and parents. The hourly employees need to make sure they remember they are just that, they DO NOT own the facility. They are there for the kids and should be ensuring their safety at all times. This center is not a safe place for children. If you want to be dictated and mistreated I would recommend for you to attend.
I can't express enough just how grateful we were to be welcomed and looked after so well by Angie, staff member here at Dawson Community Center. This facility was in brilliant condition, and her thoughtfulness makes us want to drive another hour and a half back next weekend.
Facility is great. On duty staff were very kind and helpful. We’ve been driving 25 minutes every Monday and Wednesday for a free “Elite Soccer Clinic”. Almost an hour round trip and 2 days a week for the past 3 weeks, so obviously an investment in time. But we stopped this week because the “coach” (Junior) was late many times and the last time didn’t show up. Staff assured me and 2 other families that he was on his way. I stayed for the entire hour and he finally arrived after. Really nice guy, but we won’t continue going because he’s wasting our time. As I said, the rest of the staff were amazing. They set things up and even engaged my son in conversation and some warm-up drills. We were invited to attend summer camp and clinics but there is no way I feel comfortable leaving my 9 yr old there for an entire day when the coach can’t be responsible to be on time.
The rec room was exactly what we needed for our baby shower. The lady that assisted us was very nice. We had a great time.
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