Responsible Sports Community Grant Hall of Fame

Winning this grant has helped us take a giant financial step toward our goal of providing a safer place for our children to play ball by starting upgrades and repair to our fields. We have two short terms goals. One is to keep registration fees the same as previous years; the second, major upgrades and repairs to our ball fields. Our intent is to use the money as part of a three-year field improvement project. The Liberty Mutual money allows us to start our improvements sooner rather than later, all while not having to raise our registration fees.

DYH would like to thank the folks at Responsible Sports and Liberty Mutual for their kind and generous offering. We are grateful for the opportunity to participate and look forward to participating in the future. We will proudly allocate it towards the DYH members for financial aid first, and then for purchasing additional ice time, if possible.

GVCO’s values and mission emphasize sportsmanship and character. The coaches / parents embraced the concept of being a Responsible Sports Parent/Coach and showed how important those concepts are by completing the coursework. It demonstrates how a community can come together and rally for a cause. The grant will be split into 3 uses: It will provide about 10 children the opportunity to play basketball this season that couldn't afford to play. We will purchase additional equipment for our Challenger Gym program which supports children with physical and/or other special challenges. The remainder will be used to assist in the start of an elementary and middle-school aged girls volleyball program.

We have already assigned the grant money for use on purchasing two new custom-made deck boxes. One that will house new kick boards, and pool buoys. The other will house the medicine balls, stretch cords and a First Aid kit at the new pool that we will move into next year.

The West Islip Little Conference Football League is very excited to have won the $2,500 Responsible Sports Community Grant. We were very pleased so many coaches and parents participated and supported our effort to win this grant. The money will be used to purchase new equipment and offset the cost of other league expenses.

The West Nashville Sports League will be using this grant towards scholarships for financial assistance participants, and various gym improvements including new basketball goals with adjustable heights for our younger age groups.

We are so thrilled to win the grant! Thank you so much – this is an incredible event for our organization – it means so much to all of us and will really benefit all of our players. We plan to use the grant for purchasing equipment for our off-ice training facility for all the players in our youth program to use for conditioning, strength training and endurance.

Cape Fear Youth Hockey is honored to be one of the recipients of the Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports Community Grant. We plan on using the money to help fund our teams attendance to the Congressional Spring Classic in Washington DC. Also for the first year we would like to do a end of the year banquet to recognize players, coaches and parents for a job well done.

GSYHA is very grateful and appreciative to all the families who supported the drive! And, we're very appreciative of Liberty Mutual for offering such a great community-minded grant and strategy for getting the community involved. The grant will be used to fund tournament opportunities for our teams, so they can participate in tournaments throughout Colorado.

For the past two years, we have planned on taking our Rugby Club to Wales & England to play teams we have previously hosted with club families. With this grant, we are now able to order proper uniforms and travel kits for our players to feel as proud of their team outside as they already are inside.

NBAHA plans on using the funds to assist in our effort to build an indoor ice arena in our school district. Our skaters currently travel 20 + miles to practice and are looking forward to having an arena to call home. Thanks for helping us get one step closer to making our dream a reality.

We plan on using the grant money to buy eight new sweep oars for the Junior team. Currently the oars they are using are of a size more for adults, which could cause injury among our younger rowers. Our Junior rowers will be safer and more competitive using oars of the proper length and weighting for their size and strength.

The Parker Bears are very grateful for the generosity of Liberty Mutual and their Responsible Sports program. We promote the same values within our team that Liberty Mutual stresses in this program. The Bears are heading to the Cooperstown Dream Park in New York this year for a week-long tournament. This tournament is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for 12-year-old baseball players and the grant from Liberty Mutual will be used to offset our participation fees. Thank you Liberty Mutual.

Our goals are to increase participation in the sport of competitive swimming in Smithfield by raising awareness of the many health benefits of swimming and by providing opportunities to swimmers by assisting with expenses. We plan to use the funds toward the rental of pool time for practices.

De Anza Middle School thanks Liberty Mutual for its support of student athletics. The Fall 2009 Community Grant that we have received will help purchase antennas for nets, balls, bags, and other equipment so that students can play in our Fall and Spring volleyball seasons. In this way, we know we will support our district’s vision by being a safe, healthy, and high performing school!

With an annual budget of $300 for the physical education department we were ecstatic to learn that we won the grant. We are planning on purchasing lacrosse equipment and softball gloves to expand our programming for the students. We're currently busy scanning the sporting catalogs to determine the best value for the money. East Union Elementary PTO is eternally grateful for this grant and the new opportunities it will create for our students. Thank you!!!

The Full Armor Christian Academy Warriors are very grateful and honored to have received the grant from Liberty Mutual's Responsible Sports Community Grant program. We are so excited and are looking forward to getting our softball and baseball program started. The grant money will be used to implement our program this coming season. Thank you again for this great opportunity!

We are really excited about winning this grant! It is the result of many people giving a few minutes of their time to make it happen. Our basketball program at Gilmer High School will greatly benefit from this grant by helping our players to be able to participate in summer camps that will allow them to improve as well as build team chemistry!

We will using the grant money for equipment, uniforms, and jackets for the players. We are very grateful to have won this grant. Thank you Responsible Sports and Liberty Mutual!

We are very excited that our community participated in the quiz. The funding is desperately needed and greatly appreciated. We are looking at purchasing strength and conditioning equipment that will benefit the maximum amount of student-athletes.