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Sporting Chance Award
The Sporting Chance Award was
started in 1997 as a way for Sports,
Inc. to give back to the communities that
our members serve. Each year, Sports,
Inc. awards $20,000 to an Outdoor
Division member and $20,000 to
a Team Division member. Since its
inception, through our members, Sports,
Inc. has donated well over $600,000. In 2014, to commemorate her vision and dedication to Sports, Inc., this
award was renamed the Nancy H. Wilson Sporting Chance Award.
2016 Team Division Drawing Winner:
Bush-Wells Sporting Goods
Casper, WY
Sports, Inc. Store #93
Christmas has come early
for six Casper youth
sports groups.
The six — Casper Youth
Baseball, Casper Midget Football,
Casper Crush baseball, Casper
Soccer Club, Casper Hockey and
Casper Young Guns baseball —
all received equipment they badly
needed from local sporting goods
retailer Bush-Wells.
“We got 10 hand dummies
to use to teach proper tackling
technique, and seven really nice
shoulder pad racks on wheels to
replace these ancient wooden
stands we were using,” said Brad
Menzel, “equipment monkey”
for the Casper Midget Football
League. While the number of
participants in the fifth-and sixth-
grade league is up, Menzel
said revenue is not. “We had to
scholarship 35 or 40 kids this
season, which is a lot,” he said.
The annual registration fee is $100.
Menzel estimates that the league,
established in 1969, has between
380 and 390 players this season.
It is the first chance Casper youth
have to play organized tackle
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