As we reported here weeks ago (http://www.bouncemag.com/2008/01/10/a-barefoot-d1-coach-with-a-cause-a-must-read/), on Jan. 24th IUPUI Coach Ron Hunter stepped on the floor minus shoes and socks to help build awareness for young African athletes where this is a norm. In process, he’s helped the Samaritan’s Feet organization collect over 100,000 sneakers in less than a month. That’s change. Converse chipped in 15,000, as did other huge corporations.
Oh, and his squad won, too.
Read more about it: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3214029
For info about the shoe drive, check www.samaritansfeet.org, and to arrange shoe donations, reach out to Samaritan’s Feet Marketing Director, Todd Melloh at 317-417-3525 or tmelloh@samaritansfeet.org.
Bounce supports this effort. We hope you do, too.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Bakar says:
Much love for Coach Hunter. It was probably a good thing that the whole team didn’t play barefoot. But then again, a lot of kids go 5-on-5 all-out sans kicks on my local court, so it ain’t impossible..
January 26th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Ray says:
Incredible commitment to demonstrating the reality of many people in the world. The Coach is to be commended to bring attention to this cause.
Everyone should try this for a few hours to understand what it is like and act on the opportunity to help by giving a donation. In particular if you are one of those people that have too many sneakers already and have lost all sense of reality.