Number of Participants: 50
Hours Donated: 5
Value of Time Served: $2,113
Event Amount Raised: $25,000
Event Type: Health & Medicine
Sport: Basketball
School: Pittsford-Mendon High School
Date: February 12, 2022
Location:
Pittsford Mendon High School
Mendon Road, Pittsford
NY
About:
The Rainbow Classic I, originally scheduled in December, will now be played on Saturday, February 12, 2022. The Mendon Girls and Boys Varsity Basketball teams will take on the Sutherland teams at the University of Rochester Palestra. Advance ticket sale only. No tickets at the door.
Saturday, February 12 at UR Palestra
- 12 p.m. Girls Varsity Basketball Game
- 2 p.m. Boys Varsity Basketball Game
$15 Online Ticket/Transportation Sales for High School Students until Feb. 7 at 8 a.m.
- Students in grades 9-12 only have the opportunity to purchase their priority-entrance tickets online through their My School Bucks account on a first come, first served basis until 8 a.m. on February 7. The cost is $15 for admission and includes round-trip bus transportation. Passengers on the bus will be admitted first before general admission ticket holders.
$10 In-Person General Admission Ticket Sales begin Tuesday, Feb. 8 through Feb. 11 or until sold out
- Students can purchase general admission tickets February 8 through February 11, or until sold out, at MHS and SHS during school lunch periods.
- The public can purchase tickets at the PCSD Athletic Office, 42 W. Jefferson Road Tuesday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until sold out.
To support Golisano Children’s Hospital through a donation or program advertisement, please contact Kim McCluski at kjmccluski@gmail.com.
About the Rainbow Classic
Since the Rainbow Classic began, PCSD has raised over $500,000 for Golisano Children’s Hospital. Funds raised from this friendly cross-town competition have supported various projects at the hospital including Pediatric Intensive Care Unit patient rooms, the Child and Adolescent Eating Disorder Program, the Teen Lounge and more. Proceeds from this year’s Rainbow Classic will support the Pediatric Palliative Care Program.
The Rainbow Classic started as an idea of a parent, a student-athlete and a coach in memory of Park Road Elementary School student Katelyn Pasley. It later expanded to include the memory of 2002 Sutherland High School graduate Ryan McCluski. Both were patients at the Golisano Children’s Hospital, and the name for the Rainbow Classic was inspired by Katelyn Pasley who drew rainbows while in the hospital. The event now honors the memory of many Pittsford students and has become so popular that it sells out year after year as students, staff and families come together to support the Golisano Children’s Hospital and pay tribute to the memory of loved ones.
Boys and Girls teams are about 30 and then our cheerleaders is another 20, so about 50 kids in total.
They raise awareness in the community, help sell ads to corporate sponsors, visit hospitals when allowed (COVID).