Students Take A New Twist on the Terry Fox Run – a Terry Fox Skate
For Immediate Release
(Monday, September 25, 2017)
This Thursday September 28, grade 7-12 students from Victus Academy, a private hockey academy located at Sportsworld Arena, will lace up their skates instead of shoes to skate in honour of Terry Fox.
Kicking off with a short opening assembly starting at 8:20am, students will then lace up and get on the ice for 8:50am. Students will skate 55 laps of the rink or 5km and will be using both the Spectator Rink and the Practice Rink. It is expected that this should take these student-athletes approximately one hour to complete.
The students are hoping to raise $1000 to go towards the Terry Fox Foundation, where donations raised go to fund innovative cancer research in order to achieve Terry’s goal of a world without cancer.
Producing strong, confident leaders in hockey and beyond is a key priority at Victus, grade 7 teacher Emily Brown explains. “Victus strives to build leaders on and off the ice. Organizing, fundraising, and participating in an event like the Terry Fox Run provides them with the hands on experience to become strong community leaders.” Ms Brown also states the importance of events like this to be initiated and led by the students. “The student body brainstormed volunteer and fundraising efforts to get behind and came up with the vision of the Terry Fox Skate – a way for these hockey players to put their own twist on the very well known and established Terry Fox Runs.”
The Terry Fox Foundation is only one of the charities Victus Academy students’ support, Toasty Toes, the food bank, and equipment drives also benefit from the students’ charitable work.
Victus Academy is a private school and hockey academy for male and female student athletes in grades 7-12 located in Kitchener.
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Matthew Schmidt
President
Victus Academy
519-573-3979
mschmidt@victusacademy.com
For more information, please check out the promo below with Victus students Nathan and Ben reporting: