December 10, 2007 —Jersey Village High School baseball players and coaches helped brighten children’s holiday spirits by collecting more than 550 toys for The Sunshine Kids Foundation—a Houston-based non-profit organization dedicated to children with cancer.

The baseball team set out with the goal of gathering 300 toys to give to Sunshine Kids, but with the support from campus organizations such as band, choir, FFA, Gold Dusters, NHS and staff members, the team nearly doubled that. The Falcon coaches and players delivered the toys on Friday, Nov. 30.

“The entire baseball program is extremely proud of the effort that the students and staff of Jersey Village put forth,” said JVHS coach Neil Wisener.  “Our goal of collecting 300 toys could not have been realized without the full participation and generosity of everyone involved.”

According to Jennifer Wisler, director of children’s services for The Sunshine Kids Foundation, the toys were distributed through a free toy store for families beginning with The Sunshine Kids Christmas party on Dec. 1. Now two weeks later, the foundation is still distributing these toys.

“We were pretty impressed with their donations. There were bags and bags, and they kept coming in,” Wisler said. “It’s been a great boost for a lot of our families during the holidays because of the financial strain that the cancer diagnosis puts on them.”

Jersey Village High School baseball players (from left to right) Michael Conner, junior; Ryan Smith, sophomore; and seniors Josh Stewart, Brian Ellis and Trey Talley gather the toys that they distributed to the non-profit foundation, The Sunshine Kids, on Nov. 30.

JVHS senior baseball player David Stevens hauls a box full of toys into The Sunshine Kids’ toy store.

JVHS baseball players gather in front of The Sunshine Kids Holiday Tree after dropping off more than 500 toys to the organization dedicated to children with cancer.

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