All Fun & Freedom Activities Are Dedicated
to the Memory Of Our Co-Founder

      Coach Deeni Riddle 

           Coach Riddle passed away September 2, 2006
after a 7 month battle with leukemia

Fun & Freedom’s History

 After spending 30 years as a Health & Physical Education Instructor, High School Basketball Coach and 10 years as a volunteer Coach of collegiate women with Athletes in Action International Ministries - Coach Riddle understood the positive impact sports can have in a life.  In addition - after becoming a Christian (in 1979) Coach Riddle also understood the positive impact Jesus Christ can have in a life.

A  few years after taking an early retirement - Coach Riddle wanted to combine her love for sports and her love for the Lord and felt God leading her to start a Christian Basketball Ministry.   Soon after, in 2003, she co-founded Fun and Freedom Basketball, Inc. (a 501 (C) (3) Non-Profit Faith-Based Organization) which is devoted to using sports to positively impact young  lives - physically, socially, morally, and spiritually as well as increase self-esteem.