Happy Holidays! Safe Sports Network is once again the official charity beneficiary of the BASC Santa Claus Shuffle! I've had the pleasure of working with Safe Sports Network, and with the student-athletes we serve, for the past 9 years.
Our mission is to provide high quality athletic healthcare, free of charge, to our community. Currently we provide services to nine local high schools, numerous youth leagues and middle schools, and at our free sports injury clinic. We are dedicated to ensuring all student-athletes have access to athletic healthcare, so they can continue to participate in the sports they love.
Please join me with a donation to help me reach my fundraising goal (all contributions are tax deductible!). Your donation supports not only the thousands of kids that I have personally cared for, but the other hundreds of thousands of kids that have recieved our services over the years.
If you want to learn more about the Safe Sports Network Click Here.
If you want to learn more about the run Click Here.
Thank you for helping keep kids safer!!
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.