Arlington Wrestling Autism Awareness Night

Number of Participants: 41

Hours Donated: 10

Value of Time Served: $3,465

Event Amount Raised: $5,863

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Event By: Team Up 4 Community

Event Type: Children & Youth

Sport: Wrestling

School: Arlington High School

Date: January 25, 2022

Location:
Arlington High School
State Route 55, Lagrangeville
NY

About:

This is our 2nd year doing this event. We solicit local businesses for sponsorships at 3 tiers including getting their name on the event shirt. We produced 300 shirts and hope to sell out even after the event. We sold bracelets and lapel pins provided by Autism Speaks at the event and we collected $5 per per person at the door. All proceeds will be donated to Autism Speaks of the greater Hudson Valley.

For the event, we all wore the event shirt. We made it more sensory-friendly by doing the pledge instead of the national anthem, eliminating the buzzer to end the periods, forgoing our normal music and strobe warm-up, and doing a silent cheer with our hands.

We were extremely fortunate that this year our opponents also bought shirts in advance.

we’ve got 41 wrestlers. They needed to at least buy for themselves. Some families sold a lot of shirts! Many sponsors were family members. The event needed to be set up wrestled, and cleaned up. So between sales, solicitation, and the actual day of it might be in the 10-hour realm.

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As we close the books on a successful season, on and off the mat, I am extremely happy to announce that we are cutting a check for $5863 to

@autismspeaks

of the Greater Hudson Valley thanks to proceeds from T-shirt sales, sponsorships and donations.

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