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Flash Community Outreach
Flash strive to enhance the community
The energetic mystery man runs through the crowded isles of gleeful children. Each child eagerly awaits every move, watching with pleasure and delight as if he is some sort of iconic figure or rock star.
Though quiet in nature, his outgoing persona makes this creature stand out in the spacious school auditorium. Who is the masked man? Like Madonna or Prince, he is known by only one name. Fox.
The Utah Flash Fox, (the team mascot) players and coaches spend many afternoons giving back to the community through elementary school assemblies. The team, in association with the NBA Development League, is dedicated to helping as many elementary-aged
children as possible.
The Fox’s games and pranks are usually a major highlight for the children. The mascot always comes equipped with his trademark confetti canon and silly string gun.
In December, the team visited 10 elementary schools, and in the next four months have plans to visit over 25 more. This is part of an ongoing effort by the Flash to reach out and give back to the community.
“Kids are greatly influenced by teachers and parents and we want them to know that these players are in the position they are because they have listened to good advice along the way,” Utah Flash owner Brandt Andersen said.
The Flash’s players and coaches main objective during the assemblies is to teach children the importance of reading, health, fitness, and the dangers of drugs.
The children are also given the opportunity to ask the players and coaches questions. This gives them a chance to have personal interaction with the team and ask whatever quirky questions they might have. One little girl asked a player, “Do you ever play with pretty pink
ponies?”
Children participating in the assemblies not only receive instruction, but also are given two free tickets to an upcoming Utah Flash game.
Lehi Rippy Literacy Center
On January 6, the Flash, and the NBA D-League held a ribbon cutting to show off the remodeled Lehi Rippy Literacy Center. The renovation of the Center was part of the NBA D-League Showcase activities in Utah County. The Center provides tutoring and education services to over 850 children per week. The founder and director of the Center, Hesther Rippy, was extremely grateful for all of work done by the Flash and the NBA D-League.
“They did an entire remodel of the building and it turned out to be beautiful,” she said. “Everything was just perfect and the children are now more excited about the Center.”
Andre Ingram and the other NBA D-League players read stories to children and helped promote the Center’s mission to offer effective one-on-one literacy training to help families and individuals develop the necessary literacy skills to thrive in society.
“The basketball players were so good to the children,” Rippy said. “I have never seen such gentlemen in my whole life.”
The Flash Family Foundation
The Christmas season provided the Flash a wonderful opportunity to serve the community. The Flash Family Foundation provided Christmas gifts, as well as food and daily essentials for up to four months for 85 Utah County families.
Stores Online, PMI, Pinnacle, and The Santa Cause have donated over $35,000 to the organization in 2008. The time spent on the project represented over 1,700 hours of man work.
“There are people and kids in this community who would have gone without a Christmas and even more devastating, without food,” Andersen said. “We wanted to make sure that for as many families as possible that did not happen.”
Habitat for Humanity
The Utah Flash organization is also involved in Habitat for Humanity. The nonaffiliated Christian organization strives to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness in Utah County and throughout the world, by building and renovating houses for people in need.
The Executive Director of Utah County Habitat for Humanity, Kena Matthews, helps organize the local projects.
“We provide safe and affordable housing helping to stabilize not only the families themselves but the community as well,” Matthews said.
On January 7, James Lang, Dontell Jefferson and Steve Newman volunteered labor hours to help build homes in Provo/Orem.
The Flash, along with other NBA D-league players, helped drywall a handicapped accessible Habitat home being built for Galen and Victoria Sorensen and their two children.
Other
In November, the girl scouts combined forces with the Flash Pinnacle Dancers and participated in a four-hour dance clinic at the Flash Factory. The girls learned and prepared a routine they would later perform at a Flash home game Dec. 12, during the halftime of the
Flash-Dakota Wizards game. With close to 100 girls on the court, ranging from ages 6-16, they performed the routine.
The Flash also operates camps and clinics for youth to promote physical activity and community involvement.
Links:
The Flash Factory
Habitat for Humanity, Utah County
Lehi Rippy Literacy Center
News Article from The Daily Herald on the Flash & Literacy Center
Brandt Andersen blog
The energetic mystery man runs through the crowded isles of gleeful children. Each child eagerly awaits every move, watching with pleasure and delight as if he is some sort of iconic figure or rock star.
Though quiet in nature, his outgoing persona makes this creature stand out in the spacious school auditorium. Who is the masked man? Like Madonna or Prince, he is known by only one name. Fox.
The Utah Flash Fox, (the team mascot) players and coaches spend many afternoons giving back to the community through elementary school assemblies. The team, in association with the NBA Development League, is dedicated to helping as many elementary-aged
children as possible.
The Fox’s games and pranks are usually a major highlight for the children. The mascot always comes equipped with his trademark confetti canon and silly string gun.
In December, the team visited 10 elementary schools, and in the next four months have plans to visit over 25 more. This is part of an ongoing effort by the Flash to reach out and give back to the community.
“Kids are greatly influenced by teachers and parents and we want them to know that these players are in the position they are because they have listened to good advice along the way,” Utah Flash owner Brandt Andersen said.
The Flash’s players and coaches main objective during the assemblies is to teach children the importance of reading, health, fitness, and the dangers of drugs.
The children are also given the opportunity to ask the players and coaches questions. This gives them a chance to have personal interaction with the team and ask whatever quirky questions they might have. One little girl asked a player, “Do you ever play with pretty pink
ponies?”
Children participating in the assemblies not only receive instruction, but also are given two free tickets to an upcoming Utah Flash game.
Lehi Rippy Literacy Center
On January 6, the Flash, and the NBA D-League held a ribbon cutting to show off the remodeled Lehi Rippy Literacy Center. The renovation of the Center was part of the NBA D-League Showcase activities in Utah County. The Center provides tutoring and education services to over 850 children per week. The founder and director of the Center, Hesther Rippy, was extremely grateful for all of work done by the Flash and the NBA D-League.
“They did an entire remodel of the building and it turned out to be beautiful,” she said. “Everything was just perfect and the children are now more excited about the Center.”
Andre Ingram and the other NBA D-League players read stories to children and helped promote the Center’s mission to offer effective one-on-one literacy training to help families and individuals develop the necessary literacy skills to thrive in society.
“The basketball players were so good to the children,” Rippy said. “I have never seen such gentlemen in my whole life.”
The Flash Family Foundation
The Christmas season provided the Flash a wonderful opportunity to serve the community. The Flash Family Foundation provided Christmas gifts, as well as food and daily essentials for up to four months for 85 Utah County families.
Stores Online, PMI, Pinnacle, and The Santa Cause have donated over $35,000 to the organization in 2008. The time spent on the project represented over 1,700 hours of man work.
“There are people and kids in this community who would have gone without a Christmas and even more devastating, without food,” Andersen said. “We wanted to make sure that for as many families as possible that did not happen.”
Habitat for Humanity
The Utah Flash organization is also involved in Habitat for Humanity. The nonaffiliated Christian organization strives to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness in Utah County and throughout the world, by building and renovating houses for people in need.
The Executive Director of Utah County Habitat for Humanity, Kena Matthews, helps organize the local projects.
“We provide safe and affordable housing helping to stabilize not only the families themselves but the community as well,” Matthews said.
On January 7, James Lang, Dontell Jefferson and Steve Newman volunteered labor hours to help build homes in Provo/Orem.
The Flash, along with other NBA D-league players, helped drywall a handicapped accessible Habitat home being built for Galen and Victoria Sorensen and their two children.
Other
In November, the girl scouts combined forces with the Flash Pinnacle Dancers and participated in a four-hour dance clinic at the Flash Factory. The girls learned and prepared a routine they would later perform at a Flash home game Dec. 12, during the halftime of the
Flash-Dakota Wizards game. With close to 100 girls on the court, ranging from ages 6-16, they performed the routine.
The Flash also operates camps and clinics for youth to promote physical activity and community involvement.
Links:
The Flash Factory
Habitat for Humanity, Utah County
Lehi Rippy Literacy Center
News Article from The Daily Herald on the Flash & Literacy Center
Brandt Andersen blog
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