By Kirsten Wilson, CHS Journalism Student
Heroes Over Heroin is an organization at Cloverleaf High School that aims to help the fight against Heroin and other drugs in the community. The Cloverleaf and Highland High School student athletes are coming together to help fight in the cause.
HOH helps donate to their community so that local drug addicts can find rehab facilities to help them beat this deadly addiction.
The girls basketball games will take place tonight, Nov. 21, with the JV game at 5:30 p.m. and the varsity to follow at 7 p.m. in the Cloverleaf High School gymnasium.
“Coach Gopp at Highland and his players and coaches are excited to join our players and coaches to help in this great cause,” Cloverleaf Head Coach John Carmigiano said. “The heroin epidemic is so strong in Medina County and in neighboring communities. Almost everyone knows someone that has been impacted by it. We wanted to try and help.”
There will be a raffle during halftime of the varsity game. First prize will be four Cleveland Cavalier tickets. The second prize is four Cleveland Monsters tickets. Also, the last drawing is for a $50 Casa Del Rio dinner gift card.
Admission to the games will be $5 and all proceeds will go to Heroes Over Heroin. The HOH team will also give a talk at halftime about their mission.
“I think this is a great opportunity for our group. We have big plans for the future and this game will help us a lot,” said HOH advisor Jim Humiston.
Humiston is a teacher at Cloverleaf and the lead adviser of Junior Achievement and the Heroes Over Heroin initiative.
“This is so exciting. We really needed an opportunity like this,” said HOH student leader Maddy Heller.
HOH group members Emily Gladden, Sky Gill, Kirsten Wilson, Heller and Humiston, all had the opportunity to compete earlier this year in the FedEx Junior Achievement Grant at the PGA Golf Tours in Atlanta.
They met many people down there, including professional football player Hines Ward and professional golfer Patrick Reed.
With the help of the basketball teams, the group hopes to spread its message all through the community and believes these games tonight will be a great opportunity to make people more aware of their cause.