Courage Bowl Set for Sept. 16
Camp Good Days and Special Times
The College at Brockport and St. John Fisher College are looking forward to the 2017 Courage Bowl and continuing its partnership with Camp Good Days.
The Courage Bowl, established in 2005, helps Camp Good Days fulfill its mission of improving the quality of life for children, adults and families whose lives have been touched by cancer and other life challenges.
The game will take place Saturday, September 16 on the Fisher campus at Growney Stadium. Kickoff is set for 6:00 p.m.
Individual tickets can be purchased for $5 each by contacting Assistant Athletic Director
Jennifer Granger at
jgranger@sjfc.edu or by phone at (585) 385-8315.
The Courage Bowl, which has become one of Division III's most anticipated contests, directly benefits Camp Good Days, which is a not-for-profit organization that provides thousands of children with cancer the opportunity to come together in a residential camping experience to be with the only ones who could truly understand what they were going through – other children with cancer. Since its founding by Fisher assistant coach
Gary Mervis, Camp Good Days has impacted more than 45,000 campers from 22 states and 29 countries. With a small group of paid employees, Camp Good Days is a volunteer-based organization. To avoid placing any additional financial burden on the families served, all of the programs are offered free of charge for the participants.
Each year, Camp Good Days selects honorary coaches and cheerleaders for both teams. These are Camp Good Days campers who have been diagnosed with cancer and would normally not be allowed to experience a real football game. The Camp Good Days Courage Bowl gives these campers that opportunity.
At the conclusion of the Courage Bowl, the Teddi Trophy, named in memory of Teddi Mervis, Gary Mervis' daughter and the inspiration behind Camp Good Days, will be presented, which will later be inscribed with the date of the game, final score of the game, names of the six Honorary Coaches and the names of one player from each team who displays exceptional leadership and sportsmanship.