Cal Poly Women’s Basketball Uses Camp to Raise Money for Jack’s Helping Hand
8/7/2023 5:42:00 PM | Women's Basketball
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Cal Poly women's basketball continues to use its platform to help in the community of San Luis Obispo, most recently last week as the program held a youth basketball clinic on campus with all the money that was raised going to Jack's Helping Hand, a local organization that helps help children with cancer and special needs.Head coach Shanele Stires pictured with Bridget Ready,
One of the founders of Jack's Helping Hand
Cal Poly women's basketball assistant coach Samba Johnson and head coach Shanele Stires helped organize the clinic that saw dozens of local kids running around Mott Athletics Center learning the game of basketball and fine tuning their skills, all in the name of a good cause.
Since Coach Stires and Coach Johnson arrived at Cal Poly over a year ago, they immediately saw all the good Jack's Helping Hand does for the community and wanted to get involved and help.
"Jack's Helping Hand was an organization we gravitated toward when we first got here and once we heard their passion combined with the fact I've got a special needs niece, so this is something that is near and dear to my heart," Stires said of partnering with Jack's Helping Hand.
The mission of Jack's Helping Hand is to provide community programs that specifically are geared towards children with cancer and special needs as well as financial assistance to their families.
Coach Stires and her staff intend to continue their relationship and partnership with Jack's Helping Hand and hope that fans of Cal Poly basketball will help support and donate to the organization any way possible.
"Any way that we can help give back to young people that maybe aren't as fortunate as those in our program is just something that makes us feel really good and we trust the leadership of that organization and we know that the money we raise for them is going to a good cause so it's a partnership that we look forward to growing in the years to come," Stires added.
If you would like to find out more about Jack's Helping Hand or would like to donate, click here.
