Thank you for your support!
On December 2nd, I will once again be running in the Santa Shuffle to support Safe Sports Network. As you know, sports are important to me and my family. I gain so many benefits from participating in sports - like learning healthy habits, building physical and mental strength, learning the meaning of hard work and grit and teamwork.
I love playing sports. But, I know that sports have risks. Your support helps ensure kids like me have someone to look out for them while they are playing the sports they love. Your support helps ensure kids like me have proper emergency planning and care for sports injuries when they happen.
Please help me reach my fundraising goal. Every little bit helps!
Thank you for helping keep kids safer!!
Ella
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Santa Claus Shuffle
Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 marks the 13th running of the BASC Santa Claus Shuffle. The shuffle is a 3-mile out-and-back course that starts and finishes at Veteran’s Park in downtown Manchester.
THE CAUSE
Imagine: A young athlete has collapsed on the field and isn’t moving. What happens in the next few minutes could make the difference between life and death. Is this something you want to leave to chance?
Safe Sports uses proven tools to help reduce the risk of sports participation. That’s our mission: to keep kids safer by promoting and providing a safe sports environment. All services provided free for over 6,000 students per year, including:
- injury care on site at high schools and an injury evaluation clinic in downtown Manchester;
- emergency action plans created and practiced for over 100 teams per year;
- CPR and first aid training;
- athletic health care on site at practices and games
- comprehensive concussion management programs;
- education on sports medicine topics.
Our athletic trainers work under the direction of Jim Vailas, MD who has been the Safe Sports Network Medical Director since its inception. Coordinating the daily operations is Program Director Dawn Belmore, MEd, N.H.LAT, ATC.
In the 2021-2022 school year, Safe Sports athletic trainers evaluated 1,200 new injuries, provided over 17,500 treatments at no charge to the athletes, and provided care at more than 250 appointments through our injury evaluation clinic. In partnership with ExpressMed we have performed approximately 10,000 free sports physicals over the last 3 decades.
For more information go to www.safesportsnetwork.org.