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Assistant vice principal Bianca Woods (left) and principal Maya Baker (right) with Steve Kerr (center) and their new Warriors and Valkyries jerseys. Photo by Rosina Boehm.<\/p>\nRumors circulated, as they often do in middle schools, at Visitacion Valley Middle School, as students proclaimed to their friends, \u201cSteph Curry is here!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for these tweens, it wasn\u2019t Curry. But you could do worse than the Warrior who did show up: Curry\u2019s famous coach, Steve Kerr, was making an appearance at Viz Valley on a sunny Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
About a hundred employees of the Warriors franchise \u2014 which encompasses the Golden State Warriors, the Golden State Valkyries and the Santa Cruz Warriors \u2014 were at the middle school for a community service project. Kerr, tall and greying, sporting a black polo shirt, was led around campus by principal Maya Baker to see some of the volunteers\u2019 work at the site. Baker said she hoped her students would take away the understanding that community service isn\u2019t a punishment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Viz Valley, a middle school serving\u00a0 about 300 students, was one of three schools tabbed for Golden State\u2019s 14th All Hands Helping Hands event, in which 450 employees volunteered. San Francisco\u2019s James Lick Middle School and Destiny Arts Center in Oakland each got some of the volunteers, though Steph Curry didn\u2019t make it to them, either.<\/p>\n
Assistant vice principal Bianca Woods (left) and principal Maya Baker (right) with Steve Kerr (center) and their new Warriors and Valkyries jerseys. Photo by Rosina Boehm.<\/p>\n
At Viz Valley, the Warriors volunteers made benches and picnic tables, cleaned up a courtyard, and built two little free libraries stocked with books. It didn\u2019t take long for some students to find the benches and perch on them, perhaps hoping for basketball stars to show up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Recently, Viz Valley<\/a> completed a grant-funded project<\/a> to overhaul its outdoor space. The school has converted a blacktop with one basketball court, built by the Warriors volunteers the last time they were there in 2010<\/a>,\u00a0 into a multipurpose space. Kerr complimented the makeover and Baker told him: \u201cYou should\u2019ve seen it last year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Now there\u2019s a small field with a track around it, a parkour area, grills, outdoor seating and an area with lemon and lime trees. Many of the projects undertaken this year by the volunteers will add to this newly renovated space.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited about the little libraries in the yard,\u201d Baker said. \u201cI mean, not when it\u2019s this windy, but now we have a place where kids can just get a book and sit out and read.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n At the end of their work, a crowd of volunteers gathered for a pep talk. \u201cSome years we\u2019re going to be really good, and then some years, like last year, are going to be a little rough,\u201d Kerr told them. \u201cBut through it all, we want to maintain our position. What we really are trying to do is not just win games, but to really impact people and bring joy to people\u2019s lives through basketball, but also through a lot of community work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou will never forget us because we are incredibly special,\u201d Baker said to the volunteers. \u201cWe are small but mighty. And our kids will never forget this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n After lunch, when the rumors had started about Curry, some students were invited by Baker to come meet Kerr.\u00a0 Some kids held their hands to their mouths and gasped at the former basketball player, before promptly asking for a photo.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSteph Curry is my cousin,\u201d one student informed Kerr.<\/p>\n![\"Four](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DSC_7168.jpg\")
Four volunteers with the Warriors paint posters to make one large mural. Photo by Rosina Boehm. <\/p>\n