Watch

Student-Athletes Befriend Kids with Cancer | Little Ways: Outreach

Creator:
Published:
March 6, 2024
May 11, 2018
Watch these college student-athletes befriend kids with cancers through this outreach program.

This week, Grotto catches up with Nick Hanahan, a member of the men's fencing team at the University of Notre Dame. He explains how student-athletes give back to kids with cancer through the Fighting Irish Fighting For Life cancer outreach program. "I can see that I'm making the place I came into better than how I found it," he shares.

Are you making an impact in your community? Email us at grottoteam@grottonetwork.com!

Video Transcript

Nick Hanahan: My name is Nick Hanahan. I'm on the fencing team here; I'm a senior.

The Fighting Irish Fight for Life is a cancer outreach program, and the way that it works is that we are paired up with a local hospital in South Bend. They just pair them up, actually, with different teams. We have big signing parties, so imagine we bring the kid up, we have all the teammates behind them and they sign the Letter of Intent to be on the team for that year or however long they're in the program.

I feel like that there's so many people that are like kids at a younger age, when they see a Notre Dame student or another athlete, they're like, "Oh my gosh. This person is from Notre Dame." I would remember that when I was a kid, and for me, I didn't really put two and two together until I started getting involved with this stuff.

For me, it was awesome. I loved every second of it. I can see that I'm making the place that I came into better than how I found it.

Creators:
Grotto
Published:
March 6, 2024
May 11, 2018
On a related note...
What Wheelchair Users Want Everyone To Know

What Wheelchair Users Want Everyone To Know

Jessica Ping-Wild

How a Program is Restoring Ecosystems and Cultivating Unity

How a Program is Restoring Ecosystems and Cultivating Unity

Kelly Sankowski

Toni Morrison’s Beautiful Vision

Toni Morrison’s Beautiful Vision

Renée Roden

He Uses His Iconography To Meet Others

He Uses His Iconography To Meet Others

Grace Carroll

Dancing My Way Back to Me

Dancing My Way Back to Me

Jennon Bell Hoffmann

How to Find and Serve a Cause That Speaks to You

How to Find and Serve a Cause That Speaks to You

Megan Brown Czerwinski

Civil Rights Lawyer Doubles as Radio DJ

Civil Rights Lawyer Doubles as Radio DJ

Grotto

Children's Author Teaches Kids How to Draw

Children's Author Teaches Kids How to Draw

Grotto

An Inside Look at Teaching Service Programs

An Inside Look at Teaching Service Programs

Mary Cunningham

Investing in Local Food is Investing in One Another

Investing in Local Food is Investing in One Another

Bond Warner Strong

Making Space for the Women Who Make Space

Making Space for the Women Who Make Space

Kelly Sankowski

What We Too Often Forget About Helping People in Need

What We Too Often Forget About Helping People in Need

Sophie Caldecott

Spreading Love in This Pandemic with Homemade Bread

Spreading Love in This Pandemic with Homemade Bread

Grotto

My Service Work Changed How I Treat All People

My Service Work Changed How I Treat All People

Caleb Cobbin

Good and Decent S2|E5: Going to the Margins

Good and Decent S2|E5: Going to the Margins

Grotto

Voices of Synod 2018 | Jonathan Lewis Speaks to Pope Francis and Bishops

Voices of Synod 2018 | Jonathan Lewis Speaks to Pope Francis and Bishops

Grotto

Sharing the Joy of Caring for House Plants

Sharing the Joy of Caring for House Plants

Grotto

In an Upside-Down Pandemic World, I Found Stability in Books

In an Upside-Down Pandemic World, I Found Stability in Books

Liz Colleran

I Just Moved to Chicago — Now What?

I Just Moved to Chicago — Now What?

Sarah Morris

Protecting Threatened Chimney Swift Populations

Protecting Threatened Chimney Swift Populations

Grotto

newsletter

We’d love to be pals.

Sign up for our newsletter, and we’ll meet you in your inbox each week.