The Broken Bow Youth Sports Club will host a fundraiser on Friday June 27th in downtown Broken Bow on the north side of the square just outside Legends Neighborhood Bar and Grill. The fundraiser is part of the Give 4 Custer County fundraising event currently in progress. The group was formed last summer in an effort to help cover some of the personal expenses that youth and their families encounter when they want to participate in youth sports. Group members Ryan Wetovick and Skylar Morris visited with KCNI/KBBN sports about the upcoming fundraiser and shared the organization’s vision.
“Yeah, so we’ve kind of been thinking about how we really want to keep our participation up and help increase our participation for youth sports, and hopefully that trickles into high school sports and middle school sports. But we started this organization with the thought that we will fund kids if they need anything from shoes to cost of camps, anything like that, jerseys, anything, we are there to help them. So basically, we just kind of had the idea and got a group of us together and it took off.
To piggyback off of that, a big part of it as well is participation. We want that three sport athlete. And we felt like over the past handful of years we’ve seen kiddos pick and choose and whether that is a funding issue that parents can’t afford just to do football or just to do wrestling. And so we don’t want that to be something that is keeping kids from doing or trying all athletics and increasing their skills in all areas.”
The organization was extremely thankful for the generosity that was shown by businesses, organizations and individuals in their first year of existence. Morris shared what the group was able to do in year one.
