2017 Sports, Inc. Fall Team Show Book

Sporting Chance Award

The Sporting Chance Award was started in 1997 as a way for Sports, Inc. to give back to the communities that our members serve. Each year, Sports, Inc. awards $20,000 to an Outdoor Division member and $20,000 to a Team Division member. Since its inception, through our members, Sports, Inc. has donated well over $600,000. In 2014, to commemorate her vision and dedication to Sports, Inc., this award was renamed the Nancy H. Wilson Sporting Chance Award. 2016 Team Division Drawing Winner: Bush-Wells Sporting Goods Casper, WY Sports, Inc. Store #93

Christmas has come early for six Casper youth sports groups. The six — Casper Youth Baseball, Casper Midget Football, Casper Crush baseball, Casper Soccer Club, Casper Hockey and Casper Young Guns baseball — all received equipment they badly needed from local sporting goods retailer Bush-Wells.

“We got 10 hand dummies to use to teach proper tackling technique, and seven really nice shoulder pad racks on wheels to replace these ancient wooden stands we were using,” said Brad Menzel, “equipment monkey” for the Casper Midget Football League. While the number of participants in the fifth-and sixth-

grade league is up, Menzel said revenue is not. “We had to scholarship 35 or 40 kids this season, which is a lot,” he said. The annual registration fee is $100. Menzel estimates that the league, established in 1969, has between 380 and 390 players this season. It is the first chance Casper youth have to play organized tackle

15