The to-do list before the school year tends to sprawl. It can be hard enough to pick up school supplies, but a medical evaluation, required for school sports, might linger down the agenda.

Baltimore-based apparel company Under Armour is attempting to bridge that gap, setting up an ambitious one-stop shop this weekend at its Tide Point campus.

On Saturday, any Baltimore City Public Schools student who will enter grades 9 to 12 can get a free medical evaluation provided by MedStar Health, free training bra fittings for those who need them, school supplies and food. Under Armour anticipates having translators for English-language learners, and it will host school-employed athletic trainers who can meet incoming freshmen for the first time.

“Our idea is to have everything on-site,” said Blake Maciel, a former city school employee who oversees UA’s Project Rampart, a partnership with BCPS. “You can get it all done in one day.”

The outfitter, which has been providing uniforms to city schools since 2017 through Project Rampart, undoubtedly has a mission to broaden its appeal and brand loyalty to impressionable kids. A recent ad campaign splices scenes of Baltimore streets with voice-over narration of kids and young adults talking about the ubiquity of the brand in the city. “Everywhere you look now, everyone’s wearing Under Armour.”

But the quest to broaden its youth sports initiatives — including Saturday’s event, which could see thousands of city students busing into its campus — is a part of what the company sees as a nobler mission.

At the mission’s core are the metrics showing youth sports participation has a cascading positive influence on other aspects of school performance. Student-athletes tend to have higher GPAs, better attendance and higher expected graduation rates. This year, UA was a key sponsor of the Project Play summit at the Johns Hopkins University — and it aggressively pushed Project Play’s goal to boost youth sports participation to 63% by 2030.

Flynn Burch, UA’s director of global philanthropy, calls the company’s push for youth sports participation a “sweet spot” for how it can help Baltimore-area kids.

“When we look at Under Armour, and we look at what it can provide — we were built on an athletic field, and we understand the success that can come from that,” Burch said. “We’re unapologetic for our investment in sports and what that ripple effect can provide to that young person.”

In the last few years, UA has worked with the AthLife Foundation to place academic counselors who help athletes reach and maintain academic eligibility in city schools. It has sponsored a student leadership council that meets once a month. In the last school year, it hosted a senior night for the National Academy Foundation basketball team, which doesn’t have a regulation-size court on its own campus and plays all its games on the road. UA also sponsors middle school sports, which were offered for the first time last school year, intended to reach kids and get them on the field earlier.

BCPS high schools have a long road to their participation goals. In 2022-23, 18% of high school students participated in a school sport. Those numbers reflect a wide variety of barriers and obstacles — household income, transportation access and language among them — that UA has come to know well in its partnership, but it is trying to lower the hurdles to entry.

“That transition and finding your place and finding that sense of belonging at a new school can be really tough,” Maciel said. “Sports can be that kind of way for our young people to find a sense of belonging within that high school.”

Baltimore City students interested in attending can check below for the timing of the evaluations and uniform unveilings at Tide Point:

Southwest Schools | 8-10 a.m. (Uniform unveil at 10 a.m.)

Benjamin Franklin High School, Digital Harbor High School, Carver Vocational-Technical High School, Edmondson-Westside High School, Green Street Academy, Southwestern Complex, The SEED School of Maryland

Southeast Schools | 10 a.m.-noon (Uniform unveil at noon)

Patterson High School, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, National Academy Foundation, Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, Academy for College and Career Exploration, Reach! Partnership School

Northeast Schools | Noon-2 p.m. (Uniform unveil at 2 p.m.)

Forest Park High School, Frederick Douglass High School, Coppin Academy, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, ConneXions Community Leadership Academy, Western High School

Northwest Schools | 2-4 p.m. (Uniform unveil at 4 p.m.)

Baltimore City College, Reginald F. Lewis High School, Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School, City Neighbors High School