Hello Coaches,
Hope all is well and I hope all of your programs are off to a good start for this upcoming and exciting basketball period for our youth. As most of you have heard, we had a tragic event happen with one of our area youth players. For those of you who have not heard, one of our outstanding athletes Marcus Wilson who is an 8th grader at Tony Hillerman, was diagnosed with an infection on his brain. This has caused him to have multiple procedures to correct the infection within the last couple of weeks. He is projected to be in the hospital for numerous weeks and the recovery is expected to take multiple months.
Marcus, his family and his basketball family are all confident and positive that he will make a full recovery and return to the court in the future. However, as you all would probably expect, there is and will be thousands of dollars in medical bills that his family will have to deal with, while helping with the recovery process with Marcus.
With that being said, programs which include NM Dogs (Parra) (James), NM Heat (Chavez), NM Road Runners (Guliford), NM Havoc (Baca) and members of the community have organized a benefit tournament to help Marcus and his family raise for these medical expenses. The tournament is for all ages both boys and girls and is only $175 the Tournament will be on May 31- June 2 2019. Games will be played in Albuquerque and surrounding local gyms.
Please Coaches forward to any and everyone you know in the basketball circuit to make this a big event for Marcus. Again all proceed will go to Marcus and his family! Any questions please contact me or Coach James on the flyer.
Joseph Sanchez
505-290-1709
josephsanchez3232@yahoo.com
