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KIDS
CAMP

"Life without a limb is limitless!"

Kids Camp is a program established in 2014 as a result of organizational growth. Our athletes were eager to give back and while on the road had come across many kids who were finally meeting an adult who looked like they did. Having grown into our largest program, Kids Camp is now supported by our Kids Camp Annual Fund and looks to raise $180,000 annually. Through this effort, we are able to bring 20 children (between 8-12 years old) with amputations or limb loss for a week-long camp, all expenses paid! Our veterans serve as coaches and mentors for these children, teaching them adaptive techniques and life lessons. There is amazing power through putting Heroes on a field with children, all of whom can relate to living a life without limbs. Camp attendees are selected annually, but the recruitment process is all year!


Kids Camp Alumni!

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UAS PATRIOTS Kids Camp, 2021 alumni, Maeli Gottschalk, left and Cami Wood participted in the August 28 game-day festivities as bat girls

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and help support the Kids Camps! Camp attendees are selected annually, but the recuritment process is all year. Please contact: camp@thewwast.org or phone Desiree Ellison at 1-607-227-4480.
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2021 KIDS CAMP ALUMNI Cami Wood pinch runs for a USA Patriots player. This photo is living proof of the amazing kids who participate and prove "Life Without A Limb is Limitless!"
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PHOTO'S by JEFF WALLIS
Photo Journalist

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SAFE AT 2nd! Toledo Police Officer Shade Keeney slides into 2nd - as the ball skips away from USA Patriots Reese Hines. Master Sargeant Hines, (retired), enlisted in the USAF in 2000 as an explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) technician. During his last deployment to Afghanistan, he was severely injured, while attempting to locate and disarm an IED. He retired from the USAF 2013.

Toledo Police All-Stars vs. USA Patriots!

Saul Monroy photo/JEFF WALLES
USA PATRIOTS Saul Monroy comes up with a grounder and throws to second. Sergeant Monroy, (retired), enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2006. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2010, he was serving as a Reconnaissance Communicator - while mounted in a MATV - the vehicle was struck by an IED rendering him a left below the knee amputee.
Matt Sulick photo/JEFF WALLES
SAFE AT HOME! #12 Scott Fura, Jr. races home ahead of the throw to TPD officer Matt Sulick. Scott is an alumnus of the first Kids Camp in Florida, in 2013. He lost his right arm in a lawn mower accident in 2005 and first met the team in 2011 in Cooperstown, New York. He has attended all three alumni camps in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and was invited to be a mentor.
Jeff Hackett photo/JEFF WALLES
USA PATRIOTS Sergeant First Class, (retired), Jeff Hackett, has two combat tours to Afghanistan and deployment to Kosova and Haiti. He stepped on an IED that resulted in an above the knee amputation and loss the back of his right arm. Jeff lives in Mexico, N.Y with his three daughters and owns a photography business called Combat Vet Photography.
Josh Wege photo/JEFF WALLES
USA PATRIOTS Josh Wege, Lance Corporal, (retired), enlisted in the Marines in 2008 and served in Afghanistan in 2009 as a Military Policeman. Six months into deployment his light armored vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device rendering him a bilateral below the knee amputee. Wege is President of the USA Patriots Board of Directors.
Zack Cairl photo/JEFF WALLES
TOUGH CATCH! Toledo Police officer Zack Cairl races back, to make an over the shoulder catch. The Toledo Police Softball Team is made up of officers from both Toledo and Lake Twp. Departments. They are the Ohio Police and Fire Olympics Champions.
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POWER HITTER! Lake Township Police Officer Jordan Grosjean chipped in with several key hits in the TPD victory over the USA Patriots at Mercy Health Field/CYO Park, August 28, 2021.