I loved sports but my parents could never afford league fees and great people always stepped in to help. Today I took my season earnings from umpiring and set up a scholarship to make sure I pay it forward. I'm so, so happy.
For years, I coached cheerleading for a non-profit youth league. Every year, I and a couple other parents would personally pay for at least half of my Cheerleaders’ league fees. $175 isn’t a lot, but to some it was more than they could save up in a year. Some families had multiple kids cheering and playing football, but could not afford to pay the fees, so we would. We did it because we knew that this was the ONLY activity outside of going to school for most of these kids.
My last year coaching cheer, one of my regular families, that was very poor and could never pay the fees for their 4 kids, hit a windfall by inheritance. It wasn’t a huge inheritance by any means, but they came to me and donated $10,000 to our team for extra scholarships. They said it was because they wanted to pay our kindness forward.
It’s people like them and people like you that make doing what I did worthwhile. THANK YOU for being the light those kids and families need in the darkness.
roguefiftyone on July 21st, 2018 at 19:43 UTC »
This a wonderful gift to future kids. Well done!
A_Pringles on July 21st, 2018 at 20:53 UTC »
Dude. You have made this world a better place. Thank you
unusually_usual on July 21st, 2018 at 21:48 UTC »
For years, I coached cheerleading for a non-profit youth league. Every year, I and a couple other parents would personally pay for at least half of my Cheerleaders’ league fees. $175 isn’t a lot, but to some it was more than they could save up in a year. Some families had multiple kids cheering and playing football, but could not afford to pay the fees, so we would. We did it because we knew that this was the ONLY activity outside of going to school for most of these kids.
My last year coaching cheer, one of my regular families, that was very poor and could never pay the fees for their 4 kids, hit a windfall by inheritance. It wasn’t a huge inheritance by any means, but they came to me and donated $10,000 to our team for extra scholarships. They said it was because they wanted to pay our kindness forward.
It’s people like them and people like you that make doing what I did worthwhile. THANK YOU for being the light those kids and families need in the darkness.