Right to Play

I remembered thinking about this one in September after Kali posted a message about the NHL eco-challenge but never getting around to posting it. I had read many articles about NHLer Andrew Ference and his personal quest to make the world a better place through his fame (in a relative sense, not compared to other players) and financial resources. Here is a clip of him on "The Hour" with George Strombolopolous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bvfSqKxzXk as you can see he's rocking a Right to Play shirt in the video and is a beauty talking about his broken leg. Point is, that he is a very positive role model to show to your students. Back to the start of the post, Right to Play is an organization which attempts to spread sport (or play) to disadvantaged populations around the world. They started as an Olympic organization but continued to grow. Now they boast an incredibly impressive athlete list (Gretzky, Thornton, Ference, Malholtra, Reghier just from memory in the NHL), and are becoming a very large and influential group in the world. As someone who considers himself an athelete, I tend to latch on to things such as this and think that many students will be able to find inspiration in right to play or andrew ference's story.