NJSGA Youth Foundation Aids Victims Of Hurricane Sandy

NJSGA Youth Foundation Aids Victims Of Hurricane Sandy

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation of the Jersey Shore, the New Jersey State Golf Association’s Youth Foundation has come to the rescue of one needy youth soccer association.

The NJSGA’s Youth Foundation presented a check of $4,000 to the Union Beach Soccer Association, which lost its fields, equipment and uniforms in the storm. The UBSA includes 235 players from beginners, ages 4 through 6, to the traveling team of teenagers. The youngsters play on Saturdays and the older players on Sundays.

A 13-foot storm surge, combined with a high tide, a full moon and a northeast wind not only wreaked havoc with the Raritan Bay waters but also with the local creeks that had no place to go due to the extraordinary tides and wind and storm surge.

Normally, the NJSGA Youth Foundation presents checks to golf-related youth activities, such as First Tee. The NJSGA Youth Foundation supports youth golf and sports-related programs throughout the state of New Jersey. This support is provided through grants and instructional clinics, as well as recognition through NJSGA publications and events.

“We felt in this instance, that we wanted to help youth at the Jersey Shore in any capacity we could. One of our associates, John Visconi, who lives in Union Beach, called our attention to the Union Beach Soccer Association,” said Jay MacNeill, who serves on the Youth Foundation committee. “This was a unique situation in the fact that they had lost all their equipment and uniforms.

“The NJSGA Youth Foundation was proud to help.”

Mac Neill presented the check to Union Beach Soccer Association officers, Michael Casabianca, president, Shawn Gibbons and Christine Byrnes, vice presidents, and Brian Grable, treasurer.

In 2013, the Youth Foundation was able to bequeath $33,500 to nine deserving youth-oriented charities, including the Union Beach Soccer Association.

Other non-profit organizations that received Youth Foundation grants in 2013 included the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital – Hackensack University Medical Center; Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide based in Monmouth County; the New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association (sponsorship of state high school championships; awarding of scholarship to a boy and girl golfer); the New Jersey Golf Foundation; LPGA/USGA Girls Golf of Greater Newark and the First Tees of Plainfield, Trenton and Raritan Valley.

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