2023 Safe Sports Social Program
Welcome to the 11th annual Safe Sports Social! It is hard to believe that this event has been held annually for more than a decade! It’s equally hard to believe how many kids YOU have helped keep safe and thriving! Tonight is about a look back at all of the kids you have helped and a look forward for all of those who continue to need your support. If we learned anything through the pandemic - and we certainly learned a lot - it is that sports are an incredibly important part of the social and physical well-being of our children. The need to stay safe and thriving through sports is present everyday. It doesn’t only live with the major, season-ending injuries. Instead, kids need your support every day - to stay in the game, literally and figuratively. On behalf of our Board of Directors, I would like to Thank you for being part of the Safe Sports Team and making a difference every day! Yours, James Vailas, MD
Welcome to the 11th annual Safe Sports Social! It is hard to believe that this event has been held annually for more than a decade! It’s equally hard to believe how many kids YOU have helped keep safe and thriving! Tonight is about a look back at all of the kids you have helped and a look forward for all of those who continue to need your support. If we learned anything through the pandemic - and we certainly learned a lot - it is that sports are an incredibly important part of the social and physical well-being of our children. The need to stay safe and thriving through sports is present everyday. It doesn’t only live with the major, season-ending injuries. Instead, kids need your support every day - to stay in the game, literally and figuratively. On behalf of our Board of Directors, I would like to Thank you for being part of the Safe Sports Team and making a difference every day!
Yours,
James Vailas, MD
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Welcome to Our <strong>2023</strong> Keynote Speakers<br />
Catching up (if you can!!) with the Robitaille’s<br />
In 2019 Corinne and Julia Robitaille shared their story with <strong>Safe</strong> <strong>Sports</strong><br />
donors. That video provides a compelling peek into the lives of these twins<br />
and how hard they work to excel in the classroom and at competitive running.<br />
When we last checked in with Corinne and Julia, they had committed<br />
to study and run at Dartmouth. Despite significant injuries during their high<br />
school sports careers, their academic and running achievements made the<br />
elite school a perfect fit.<br />
Racing ahead four years brings us to their senior year at Dartmouth where<br />
the Engineering (Corinne) and Government (Julia) majors have helped their<br />
team win All-Academic Team honors. They have been key members of the<br />
track team and cross-country team (which recently won a prestigious Ivy<br />
League competition and finished 6th in the NCAA Northeast Regional meet).<br />
It has been an incredibly successful four years for Corinne and Julia in the<br />
Ivy League. Corinne and Julia (and their mother Dorra!) have not forgotten<br />
the difference you – <strong>Safe</strong> <strong>Sports</strong> donors – made in their lives by making <strong>Safe</strong><br />
<strong>Sports</strong> available to them. They are excited to share just how much the <strong>Safe</strong><br />
<strong>Sports</strong> Team helped shape their lives and supported their success!<br />
You made a difference<br />
for Julia and Corinne<br />
Robitaille (above) during<br />
their high school years –<br />
that is still making a<br />
difference for them today.<br />
Thank you for caring<br />
for our kids!<br />
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