Sconnie McSix was a bit taken aback when his cousin, Seattle Argonauts rookie and last season's SMJHL MVP Sconnie McHits invited him to come along to play in a charity hockey game back in his home state of Alaska to help support a local childhood cancer charity. McHits is a pure winger: quick, athletic, with good vision and great finishing ability. Comparatively, McSix himself is a bit bigger, and skates are not really his thing. Seeing that it was for the kids, McSix obliged, but only under the condition that McHits give him a few pointers and help train him before he took the ice in the game. For a week ahead of the event, McSix and McHits trained, with McSix feeling more and more comfortable on skates. He learned to embrace the physicality of the sport; much like blowing through the line and trucking opposing linebackers, he knew he would enjoy checking and winning back the puck for his team. Lining up as a defenseman, McSix ended up having a ton of fun, laying some hits, and assisting McHits 3 times in a 3-2 win for his team. With the roar of the crowd and the financial success of the charity event, McSix knew that he had made the right call by dabbling in this sport.
05-17-2022, 03:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-17-2022, 03:43 PM by Agent Chaos. Edited 1 time in total.)
Ceti was invited by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to play in a Basketball Charity Event. They were trying to raise $25,000 in donations. With Ceti's personal experience of her best friend being a survivor of Leukemia, she decided to play in the basketball event to raise money for the society. It definitely was not her sport, but she decided to take it on. It was for sure different from her playing as a running back for Minnesota, but she did well. She would practice many months prior to the date of the event and just 2 weeks before, she injured her ankle from all the jumps and basketball moves. She took on the court with an ankle almost healed and completed 8 dunks! Her team did not win the event, however she had fun and was able to raise a total of $30,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She was ecstatic, regardless of the team losing it was a win for her.
welcome to the dark side.
Oh yes, there is nothing more important to professional athletes then when they have an opportunity to do a chartiy sporting event. However, you cant really call it a charity event if you are playing a sport that the athlete is known for. Wheres the fun in that? With that said, recently Yellowknife Wraith QB and long time loser, Dustin Parmelee got asked to participate in a Charity Event where the proceeds where going to Autism Awareness and Research. This was very personal for Parm, as he has an 8 year old daughter who has been diagnosed with severe autism at the age of 3. So Parm accepted the request to participate. The event was a bowling tournament. Parm was excited because not only was he a good bowler, but he knew he could bring his daughter to this event. Which he would go on to do. During the entirety of the bowling tournament Parm had his daughter by his side. One time he even was holding her in his arms while he threw a perfect strike ball, exploding the pins into a mass of pin action that would absolutey make any member of the Professional Bowling Association jealous. Parm would actually go on to win this event while bowling a perfect 300 in the final. His daughter was so happy for her dad, and she enjoyed bowling so much, they would start a tradition fo going bowling every single Friday night, no matter where they were. win win for sure.
Code: 250
Safety Ja'uan Holland of the Norfolk Seawolves took part in a game of pickup basketball as a part of a charity fundraiser back in his hometown of Portland Oregon. The game was for a local homeless shelter, and because Holland's father was homeless for a bout of time, he felt partially responsible to try and help anyone who needed the help. The way the charity worked, people would offer to pay per player's stat lines per game. So someone could walk up and offer 50 cents per point made, 5 dollars per block, a buck for an assist, etc. You could place these lines on any player you liked, and at the end of the day, the charity raised over $15,000 dollars. Ja'uan himself played basketball alongside football growing up, so he was someone to look for. As a highly-touted ISFL prospect in this year's draft, a lot of media buzz helped with the attention he wanted for the charity game. He posted a 26 PTS 10 REB 4 STL 1 BLK game, raising a good chunk of the money donated, as a lot of people chose to place their money on the hometown hero.
The biggest issue on Woody’s mind, as always when it comes to charity work, is getting toys to children. There are perhaps more important quote unquote causes, the environment certainly comes to mind here, but the fact of the matter is that Woody knows that children are the future of the world and making sure that they have an enriching childhood is critical to solving those other issues. So, then we come down to sport. I mean, the really obvious one is of course football. Toys playing football is still a novelty and even with 1 toy playing in the ISFL, living toys playing football is sure to draw a crowd. But it just doesn’t have the umph factor that you want in order to really raise some money for charity. So Woody is thinking an absolutely massive dodgeball tournament. Hundreds, maybe thousands of toys in a proper stadium flipping about the place, using any and all the different abilities that being a different type of toy will give you. It would be a beautiful piece of pure pandemonium that is sure to raise some serious money for toys for kids.
[OPTION]===========================================
[OPTION]DSFL Regular Season Stats [OPTION] Tackles: 106 [OPTION] TFLs: 7 [OPTION] FF/FR: 1/1 [OPTION] Sacks: 3 [OPTION] Interceptions: 3 [OPTION] Pass Deflections: 9 [OPTION] Touchdowns: 1
[OPTION]=========================================== [OPTION]DSFL Playoff Stats [OPTION] Tackles: 25 [OPTION] TFLs: 0 [OPTION] FF/FR: 1/0 [OPTION] Sacks: 3 [OPTION] Interceptions: 0 [OPTION] Pass Deflections: 2 [OPTION]===========================================
[OPTION]ISFL Regular Season Stats [OPTION] Tackles: 78 [OPTION] TFLs: 5 [OPTION] FF/FR: 1/2 [OPTION] Sacks: 8 [OPTION] Interceptions: 1 [OPTION] Pass Deflections: 8 [OPTION] Touchdowns: 0 [OPTION] Receptions: 419
[OPTION] Receiving Yards: 3681
[OPTION] Receiving Touchdowns: 25
[OPTION] Kick Return Yards: 5367
[OPTION] Kick Return TDs: 1 [OPTION] Punt Return Yards: 1651 [OPTION] Punt Return TDs: 5 [OPTION] Pancakes: 242 [OPTION]===========================================
[OPTION]ISFL Postseason Stats [OPTION] Rushing Yards: 926 [OPTION] Yards per Carry: 4.56 [OPTION] Rushing Touchdowns: 7 [OPTION] Receptions: 44 [OPTION] Receiving Yards: 408 [OPTION] Receiving Touchdowns: 4 [OPTION] Kick Return Yards: 653 [OPTION] Kick Return TDs: 0 [OPTION] Punt Return Yards: 192 [OPTION] Punt Return TDs: 0 [OPTION] Pancakes: 28 [OPTION]=========================================== [OPTION]Trophy Case/Achievements: [OPTION] S15 DSFL RBotY [OPTION] S15 DSFL MVP [OPTION] S16 Pro Bowler (RB) [OPTION] S17 Pro Bowler (RB) [OPTION] S18 RBotY [OPTION] S18 PERotY [OPTION] S18 OPotY [OPTION] S18 Pro Bowler (RB)
[OPTION] S19 Pro Bowler (RB & Returner)
[OPTION] S20 Pro Bowler (RB & Returner)
[OPTION] S21 Pro Bowler (OFlex & Returner)
[OPTION] S21 Ultimus Champion
[OPTION] S21 Ultimus MVP
[OPTION] S22 Pro Bowler (RB & Returner)
[OPTION] Most Rushing TDs in a DSFL season (S15, 20)
[OPTION] 3rd Most Rushing TDs in a DSFL season (S14, 18) [OPTION] 5th Most Career Rushing Yards
[OPTION] 9th Most Career Rushing TDs
[OPTION] 7th Most Career Scrimmage Yards
[OPTION] 8th Most Career Scrimmage TDs
[OPTION] 5th Most Career Punt Return TDs
[OPTION] 5th Most Career All-Purpose Yards
[OPTION] 8th Most Career All-Purpose TDs
[OPTION] 4th Most Career Postseason Rushing Yards
[OPTION] 2nd Most Career Postseason Rushing TDs
[OPTION] 2nd Most Career Postseason Scrimmage Yards
[OPTION] 2nd Most Career Postseason Scrimmage TDs [OPTION] 10th Most Career Postseason Kick Return Yards
[OPTION] 7th Most Career Postseason Punt Return Yards
[OPTION] 2nd Most Career Postseason All-Purpose Yards
[OPTION] 2nd Most Career Postseason All-Purpose TDs |
|