DRAGONS ANNOUNCE COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM
The Dallas Dragons program is about developing young men to be good citizens, good students and good athletes. At least twice each year, Dallas Dragons players participate to community service projects to help others. These projects are selected by the Dragons coaches. Dragons athletes are also required to maintain passing grades.
- Lee Kilborn
"Most people never get involved in their community for one simple reason…no one ever asks them to. Well, here at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, we believe in asking – and it certainly worked with the Dallas Dragons!
A couple of weeks before the 2007 SAM’S CLUB MS 150 Bike Tour, we were having trouble finding a group to help us unload bikes at the end of the tour. In “Heard it Through the Grapevine” style, the Dallas Dragons got wind of our predicament, mobilized their team members and high-tailed it to Frisco to help us out.
For the 2008 Bike Tour, we asked them to come out to the Finish Line in Fort Worth to help load the bikes to be transported back to Frisco and boy did they hear us! They showed up in droves and not only loaded nearly every one of those 3,000 bikes, they unloaded luggage, handed out medals, cleaned tables, lugged water, congratulated cyclists…the list goes on and on! Everywhere you looked there were young men in orange volunteer t-shirts doing anything and everything asked of them.
I have no idea what we would have done without them and I have no plans to find out next year, or the year after that, or the year after that…!
Coach Browning is teaching these young men much more than baseball. He’s teaching them responsibility and compassion. We appreciate their participation and can’t thank them enough for doing their part to create a world free of MS."
