– Erin L Givens<\/p>\n
The writer is a student in Comm 240 News Reporting.<\/p>\n
Up \u2018til Dawn, a campus organization that raises money for St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, partnered with a Leadership 310 group and the Hays Recreation Center to put on a soccer camp for youth aged 5-14 on Saturday, March 8.<\/p>\n
The Cancer Kickers soccer camp was held from 1-3 p.m. at the Soccer Stadium, with registration starting at 12:30 p.m. The $20 registration included a T-shirt.<\/p>\n
Korby Boswell, is part of the LDRS 310 group that helped plan the event and executive director of Up \u2018til Dawn on campus.<\/p>\n
This is the third year Up \u2018til Dawn has hosted the soccer camp, Bowell said. Forty-four kids pre-registered, and Boswell said he hoped more would show up on Saturday. Last year the event had 35 participants.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe use this as an awareness campaign for the parents, as well as the kids, so we can let them know here is what we are doing, and here is why we are here. We have raised this amount of money for St. Jude, which runs completely on donations, so that is what your money is going for. I think a lot of people area pretty receptive to that too,\u201d Boswell said.<\/p>\n
St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, located in Memphis, Tenn., is the world\u2019s leading research institution on cancers found in children. It shares its results with medical facilities around the world. The hospital is funded entirely through donations.<\/p>\n
The LDRS 310 group had only 28 days to organize and plan the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the outside looking in, you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh you know it\u2019s a soccer camp. What can it entail?\u2019 But you have to make a registration form, but that comes after finding a location, setting a date and setting a time\u2026We printed over 2,000 flyers and distributed those to every school in Hays as well as Victoria and Ellis,\u201d Boswell said.<\/p>\n
Although the group did not have a fundraising goal in mind, the community has helped cover the cost of the event with sponsorship and donations, Boswell said, adding most of the money from registration will go straight to St. Jude.<\/p>\n
The FHSU soccer teams and coaches ran the camp. The coaches and players ran drills and worked on techniques with the kids. The Recreation Commission provided the soccer balls and helped set a date for the event.<\/p>\n
Emily Goad is production chair for Up \u2018til Dawn and was in the LDRS 310 group that helped plan the event last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt costs St. Jude $1.8 million a day to stay open, and they get that money through donations alone. St. Jude covers the cost of everything, so families don\u2019t have to pay anything,\u201d Goad said.<\/p>\n
Up \u2018til Dawn is a nationwide collegiate partnership with the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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