Number of Participants: 1
Hours Donated: 100
Value of Time Served: $845
Event Type: Civic & Community
Sport: Boys Ice Hockey
Date: February 13, 2024
Location:
LIU Post
Northern Boulevard, Greenvale
NY
About:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — LIU men’s hockey forward Jack Quinn will be honored for his philanthropy at the Frozen Four.
Quinn on Monday was named one of five finalists for the 2024 Hockey Humanitarian Award, joining Cornell’s Hank Kempf, Penn State’s Dylan Lugris, Merrimack’s Raice Szott and Syracuse’s Sarah Thompson.
The 29th recipient of the Hockey Humanitarian Award will be revealed in a ceremony on April 12, during the NCAA Men’s Frozen Four weekend in Saint Paul, Minn.
The Hockey Humanitarian Award Foundation additionally will make a donation to the charity most important to each of the five finalists.
At LIU, Quinn has reached hundreds of people with his altruistic spirit and servant heart.
He has taken the initiative to lead on-ice events with a number of youth hockey organizations on Long Island year-round, including practices and clinics with the Long Island Gulls, Long Island Arrows, Beaver Dam, P.A.L. Islanders and New York Islanders Learn-To-Skate program.
He has participated in the Hockey Helps Marathon to raise funds for local charities, and led LIU with the Island Harvest Food Bank Drive, a hunger-relief organization with a mission to end hunger on Long Island.
Quinn similarly took the lead role with LIU hockey in preparing Thanksgiving meals for Long Island families in need through an organization called Carroll’s Kitchen. He also spent many hours finding homes for rescued animals in LIU’s Pet Adoption Program and volunteering to raise awareness regarding heart disease with the American Heart Association.
In addition, two organizations that Quinn has been particularly close to — and to which he continues to dedicate his service — are the Long Island Warriors, a hockey program consisting solely of military veterans who use hockey as therapy in coping with physical and mental disabilities, and to the Hockey in Harlem program, which provides inner-city youth with access to hockey.