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 (Photo courtesy of Stephanie Smith) Garrett Windle (left), a member of the Rotaract Club of the Athlete Village and captain of the Twin Cities Northern Lights junior hockey team, participates in a ceremonial puck drop before an exhibition game in February to raise funds for polio eradication.
Rotaract Hockey Team Scores a Goal for Polio
MARCH 15, 2010Ryan Hyland, Rotary InternationalA junior hockey team made up of U.S. Rotaractors scored a goal for polio eradication by raising thousands of dollars for Rotary's US$200 Million Challenge.
The Twin Cities Northern Lights hockey team, a nonprofit organization based in Minnesota, traveled to British Columbia, Canada, to play five exhibition games against Canadian hockey teams before February's Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Read the story on the Rotary International website: www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews
Team owner and trip coordinator Stephanie Smith, a member of the Rotary Club of Bloomington-Daymakers, founded the Rotaract club with the goal of bridging sports and community service.
"Our team's mission, not only during the Olympic trip but throughout the whole year, is to foster goodwill and to help build better communities using sports," says Smith, who was an athletic trainer at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. "We're demonstrating a model for mobilizing sports teams to accomplish the worthy causes led by Rotary clubs worldwide."
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