Sports
Car Wash Helps Push Basketball Team to Fundraising Goal
The Hanover Park High School basketball team washes cars to fundraise for a tournament at Disney World this December.
Local residents stopped by Hanover Park High School to get their cars washed and to help the basketball team raise money for the chance of a lifetime.
The team is trying to get to the 2013 KSA Events Holiday Tournament at Disney World this December, but to get there they have to fund their own way, to the tune of about $1,500 per athlete, or between $35,000 and $40,000 for the entire team.
According to junior center Matthew O'Connor, the team has raised about $8,000 so far, over $800 of which was raised in two days of car washes.
The team's next fundraiser is a Golf Outing set for the Brooklake Country Club on August 12.
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