A MESSAGE FROM Gregory
Thank you so much for considering a donation to Harlem Lacrosse. Personally, the mentors, coaches, and friends that I met through the sport of lacrosse were instrumental to my growth and development. I learned core lessons of sacrifice, preparation, and commitment to collective goals through this incredible sport. In the years since graduating college, my passion for running and pushing myself to tackle difficult endurance challenges has steadily grown. Running the NYC Marathon is a special opportunity for me because I am fortunate to be a part of Harlem Lacrosse's team. HL's holistic mission to grow the game I love, and develop youth in deserving communities, is a noble cause that I'm excited to help support.
Harlem Lacrosse is a school-based youth organization whose mission is to provide opportunities, relationships, and experiences that activate the skills and traits to put youth on a path to success as students, athletes, and citizens. For ten years Harlem Lacrosse has been a catalyst for educational access, equity and belonging in the lives of youth. As a supporter of Harlem Lacrosse I share their belief in the power of opportunity for all youth. No matter a child’s family income, zip code, the color of their skin, how they identify or what language they use at home, they are all deserving of pathways to success. Harlem Lacrosse's sports-based youth development model empowers students to become lifelong learners and achieve the goals they set for themselves by providing wrap-around programming that includes daily study halls, mentoring, push-in academic support and tutoring, admissions counseling, leadership training, service-learning, career exploration, college trips and character-building lacrosse instruction and competition. The NYC Marathon plays a vital role every year in making Harlem Lacrosse’s year-round programming available to over 1000 student-athletes in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston and Los Angeles. As I train to run on behalf of Harlem Lacrosse's NYC Marathon Team, I am inviting you to join me in making The Harlem Promise. I promise to support Harlem Lacrosse's commitment to work alongside youth and families from the time they join this program in middle school to build pathways to college and career success. Your support of my 2022 HL Marathon Team is a commitment to The Harlem Promise and I look forward to what we can accomplish together on the field, in the classroom and in our communities.
