Team Addy’s basketball tournament aims to raise $100K for cancer research
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The fourth annual Team Addy basketball tournament returns this weekend in support of sarcoma cancer research. Along with third-party events, it's raised over $500,000.
The fourth annual Team Addy basketball tournament returns this weekend.
The tournament is in support of sarcoma cancer research after Elora, Ont., teenager Addison Hill died of the disease in 2022.
Jessica Hill, Addison’s mother and founder of the Team Addy initiative, said it was initially her daughter’s idea to start the fundraiser.
Hill said her daughter wanted to do more for children battling sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, while she was undergoing chemotherapy at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children a few years ago.
“It was initially can we reach out to her basketball coach and see if we can just host a basketball game? I’d have some cotton candy and some ice cream and just started like that and started putting our brains together,” Hill said.
In 2022, Addison’s coach at the Centre Wellington Celtics basketball program created a 3-on-3 tournament that has since become one of Canada’s largest amateur basketball competitions. It was Addison’s idea to use it to raise money for cancer research.
Hill said Addison would have been so happy to see how the fundraiser has evolved since then.
“She would walk around with the biggest smile on her face, knowing that she’s making an impact, because she wanted to help those kids at SickKids. So, to honour that wish is my honour,” she said.
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