Wood Volleyball Team Raises Money for Breast Cancer Awareness

Our Middle School Sports program provides students with a safe, healthy after-school activity that supports sportsmanship, teamwork, goal setting, self-confidence and school spirit.  But you never know what else can happen when you put a group of determined middle schoolers together.

The Wood Middle School volleyball players decided they wanted to support breast cancer awareness.  Throughout the month of October the girls donned pink hair bows and the boys pink socks and laces. They hosted bake sales at the games and asked their classmates for donations on game days. The Beavers decided that because Wood is a Title I (low-income) school, they wanted to help others who are low-income, so they selected the “Friends of Faith” organization, whose mission is to help low-income, under-insured women (and men) undergoing treatment for breast cancer. On November 4th, they presented the Friends of Faith Foundation with $600!  Talk about teamwork!

Wood Volleyball team and Friends of Faith president, Cheri Dove