About a month ago, I posted a note here about superintendents rallying to the assistance of colleagues who have family members suffering from serious illlnesses. I thought I'd update you a bit.
One of the featured efforts was a benefit hockey game sponsored by the Rocky Mountain GCSA for six-year-old Myles Krick, who is battling brain cancer that spread to his spine. The March 20 benefit went very well and the gritty Myles, shown here dropping the puck on the opening faceoff, is fighting his way through chemotherapy and radiation treatments, is doing pretty good too.
Myles is the son of Mark and Sarah Krick and the older brother of Ben. Mark is the CGCS at The Homestead Golf Course in Lakewood, Colo.
Myles' brain cancer was discovered last December during treatment for a head injury he suffered while playing ice hockey with his grandfather. Mark says the hockey fall was definitely a blessing in disguise. "Who knows when we would ever found out about the cancer otherwise," the 18-year GCSAA member says.
Mark says the benefit hockey game, with Myles dropping the puck for the opening faceoff, was a fantastic success. Counting admission, donations and silent auction proceeds, it raised $13,500. About 450 people attended the game, won by the RMGCSA team, dubbed the Turf Heads of Colorado, 6-4 over members of the Lakewood police and fire departments.
Sarah, Myles, Mark & Ben last September.
"It's just been incredible," Mark says. "It's incredible how the whole community has rallied around Myles."
The support has obviously had a positive effect on Myles, whose progress is raising eyebrows, as well as his family.
Meanwhile, the support keeps gaining momentum. It's Catholic Schools Night April 25 at the Colorado Rockies-Los Angeles Dodgers game at Denver's Coors Field and Myles, a PeeWee League player last summer and a first grader at Our Lady of Fatima school in Lakewood, has been selected to throw out the first pitch.
Then, on June 1, the RMGCSA is hosting a benefit golf tournament, Golfing 4 Myles, at Lakewood's Fox Hollow Golf Course. The four-person scramble will include several sponsorships and raffles to help the Kricks defray medical expenses.
Mark says Myles, shown here in a recent photo, finished his first phase of chemo and radiation treatments last Friday and April 6 the youngster is to begin a year-long siege of chemo.
"After that, hopefully he can return to being a kid again," Mark says. "... A step at a time and keep forging ahead."
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