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Mr. Hetman from Torrance CA is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Making a Strong CORE One Athlete at a Time!

Help me give my students heavy medicine balls to help strengthen their core.

  • $478 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

The wrestlers on our team are using outdated equipment. They are a hard-working group and could use an upgrade to our facilities. Because wrestling is an extracurricular sport, most of our team funds come from donations and fundraising.

Our team includes high-school boys and girls who go the extra mile in training and community service.

Not only do they work together to develop their own skills, but they also educate the local youth in an afterschool youth program. They are a polite, hard-working, well-adjusted group of young students. Any donations to this awesome group of kids would be amazing.

My Project

Wrestling is an amazing sport. It encompasses so many aspects of life. Students must work hard and be diligent to succeed. Wrestlers need to have a strong core in order to keep from being injured, as wrestling is a very physical sport. We received some lighter weight medicine balls for our newer and lighter weight wrestlers. We had so much success with these we are now asking for heavier medicine balls for the stronger, more experienced kids to use. These medicine balls will be used to help our team improve their core strength. We can use the medicine balls to stay physically fit and work independently or with a partner in maintaining our strength. Using these new pieces of equipment can make strengthening our core so much easier and gives us something new to try.

Mr. Hetman
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
SPRI Cross Train 40 lb. Slam Ball • DICK'S Sporting Goods $104.99 1 $104.99
RAGE Performance 20 lb Medicine Ball • DICK'S Sporting Goods $94.99 1 $94.99
SPRI 30lb. Cross Train Slam Ball • DICK'S Sporting Goods $79.99 1 $79.99
SPRI 20lb. Cross Train Slam Ball • DICK'S Sporting Goods $59.99 1 $59.99

Materials cost

$339.96

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$31.11

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$406.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$71.68

Total project goal

$477.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$477.85

1 Donor

-$238.92

Donations toward project cost

-$203.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.84

match offer

-$238.93

Match offer toward project cost

-$203.09

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.84

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$0.00

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