Lisle High School Baseball Player Combines Team and Volunteer Club for Joint Effort

Have you heard about 's latest service club?

The Friends of Feed My Starving Children formed earlier this school year, and has seen great strides in its numbers in just a few short months. Friends of Feed My Starving Children works to benefit its affiliate organization, Feed My Starving Children, through both volunteer work and fundraising. The service group began with the efforts of students Robbie Dean, Jake Haseltine, and Ty Howell.

You may remember , where they assisted in packing 6,680 meals for adolescents around the world! The group got even more physical with their efforts in February, this time by sponsoring a three-on-three basketball tournament at Lisle High School. More than 60 students participated in the tournament, including 11 members of the boys’ varsity basketball team. The club raised more than $400 that evening with a $12 entry fee per team and $2 3-point shooting contest.

The winning team for the tournament included players Dawon Burrell, Ty Howell, Nick Olson, and Kelly Urban; and the winner of the 3-point shooting contest was Alex Ventrella.

“I was surprised on how smoothly everything went seeing as it was the first three-on-three the high school has had in some years,” said Howell.

Howell helped organize another packing trip with roughly 60 student participants on March 5. Howell, also a varsity baseball player, wrangled 27 members of the Lisle High School baseball teams.

That evening the group from Lisle packed 84 boxes of food. Those boxes contained a total of 3,024 bags of what the FMSC leaders call MannaPack Rice. Those 3,024 bags made up of chicken, vegetables, soy, and rice will be enough to feed 50 children for a year. Had the food been bought, the total value would have been $4,334. Most of the food packed by the Lisle group will go to children from Haiti, aiding the recovery effort from the 2010 earthquake.

“This cause is very important for many reasons. It allows people to give to the less fortunate, and personally, it also allows me to let others know how to help,” Howell said. “FMSC is one of the most helpful and generous organizations and I'm proud to be a part of it.” 

Find out more about Feed My Starving Children.

Information in this article was compiled from various releases from Lisle Community School District 202.