{"id":49128,"date":"2021-06-09T11:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=49128"},"modified":"2021-06-09T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:05:42","slug":"lehigh-senior-high-school-wrestling-team-receives-new-headgear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/06\/lehigh-senior-high-school-wrestling-team-receives-new-headgear\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Senior High School wrestling team receives new headgear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Left to right: Junior Kenley Dufresne and Junior Denson Denis of the Lehigh Senior High School Wrestling team. PHOTO PROVIDED<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Due to the pandemic, Lehigh Senior High School\u2019s wrestling coach sought alternative fundraising efforts, which resulted in the team receiving new headgear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis year the kids weren\u2019t able to sell things in school,\u201d Coach Kyle Von Linden said of selling chocolate and having money switch hands. \u201cWe were restricted on fundraising opportunities. That\u2019s why we turned to this alternative funding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fundraising efforts were done through DonorsChoose where teachers can post what their needs are in the classroom, or sports team. As the leading way to give to public schools, since 2000, 4.7 million people and partners have contributed $1 billion to support nearly 2 million teacher requests for classroom experiences and resources. DonorsChoose ships the funded resources directly to the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 4, Teacher Appreciation Day, SONIC Drive-In matched 50 percent of each donation made to teacher requests on DonorsChoose through Limeades for Learning. SONIC Drive-In donated $1.5 million to the teacher requests, which helped more than 7,000 teachers across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SONIC has provided support for teachers during Teacher Appreciation Month since 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Von Linden received a combined donation of $649.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTeachers took this past year head-on, engineering a variety of innovative methods to keep their students learning in both in-person and virtual classrooms,\u201d said Lori Abou Habib, chief marketing officer for SONIC, in a prepared statement. \u201cWe express our gratitude to these teachers, who create inspirational learning environments for students during a challenging time. With SONIC\u2019s $1.5 million donation match, we were able to help teachers access much-need supplies to successfully complete this school year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although this was the first time Von Linden had used Donors Choose, he was told about the opportunity by another teacher at Lehigh Senior High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project \u201cHelp These Promising Young Men Compete at Their Best,\u201d was to help give his athletes the proper fitting headgear to keep them safe while they compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Von Linden said this past year was his first year as the wrestling head coach. He said some of the headgear had Velcro, which was not working anymore, and the team had to share three headgear among 14 wrestlers on the team. There were times the helmets would fall off in the middle of the match, causing the team to call for injury time to fix the helmet and get it taped up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About a month ago, DonorsChoose notified Von Linden that his project got funded and they would handle all the ordering. He said at the beginning of the project he was able to go online and choose the headgear he wanted for his team and it was sent straight to the school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Due to the pandemic, Lehigh Senior High School\u2019s wrestling coach sought alternative fundraising efforts, which resulted in the team receiving new headgear. \u201cThis year the kids weren\u2019t able to sell… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49130,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49128\/revisions\/49130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}