On Thursday, September 20th in the Southern Lehigh Middle School Stadium, the High School girls soccer team played a charity game to benefit Camelot for Children. After fundraising by selling t-shirts and raffle tickets, the team played the Pen Argyl Green Knights and ended with a 4-1 victory.
To help raise money for Camelot, the girls soccer team raised funds during lunches by selling blue t-shirts for $12. The t-shirts were also the ticket into the stadium game.
Beside the t-shirts, the team made raffle baskets worth $100 to $175. The basket themes ranged from sports baskets to a family baskets. Raffle tickets were sold for one dollar each, adding up quickly to $262. After 140 t-shirts were sold and raffle baskets were won, the team was able to raise about $1,000 to donate to Camelot for Children.
Camelot for Children is a non-profit organization that provides a home setting for seriously, chronically, and terminally ill, handicapped or disabled children and their families. Camelot has monthly events allowing children to interact with one another.
This is the second year the soccer team has hosted a charity event. Last year they played Palisades High School in a game to help raise money for the Make a Wish Foundation. The team raised enough money to send a young boy to Disney World.
The soccer team hopes to continue to hold benefit games to help the community.
Sophomore Aly Moyer, the team’s goal keeper, said, “I love how the team can work together for a great cause, and it brings the school closer together, too.”
