2011 St. Thomas Boys Soccer

The 2011 season home opener for the Saints is on
Friday August 26th at 4:00pm

We will host the Portsmouth High School Clippers this year
on the St. Thomas varsity field.
The JV teams will play at the same time on the JV field.

All Freshmen players are required to attend and help out
with games and fundraising.

The teams will play the game with Select "The Cure" soccer balls.
Players will wear pink sweatbands and headbands.
Some will have pink laces in their cleats.

This is done to raise awareness that cancer touches everyone's lives.
Everyone is effected by cancer in some way.
It could be a family member, a relative, a friend or someone you know.

A little history of the season opener "in Pink":

In the 2009 home opener
St. Thomas played Oyster River to raise money to fight breast cancer.

This was done to raise some money, but also awareness that cancer touches everyone's lives.

In that 2009 game Ross Suleski scored the loan goal as the Saints won their home opener against Oyster River.
Ross played in memory of his Grandmother Betty Peterson who passed away from Lung Cancer.

The teams raised $338.00 over all.

In 2010 we made the game a bit more personal.
What can make the game more personal than playing for cancer awareness?

Playing to help one persons fight for cancer.  Playing to help one family.
Playing to raise money to help a child directly.

I'd like you to meet Rylie Cruz.

Rylie lived in New Hampshire with her family.

Hailee, John, Karen, Rylie and Makayla

On Jan 9,2010 Rylie had a big belly and the family thought she was constipated. Rylie was brought to the ER, she was diagnosed with an enlarged Liver and was transported to Children's Hospital at Dartmouth in Hanover.  Rylie was then transferred to Children's Hospital in Boston. She was poked, prodded, and x-rayed many times.  They found that Rylie has a large Tumor in/next to her Liver and everything pointed towards Cancer. She has been a little trooper and behaved so well for all the Doctors and Nurses. There were multiple teams of doctors working with her from both Children's Hospital and Dana Farber. 

 Donations from the game were sent to the Cruz family to help defer the costs they incur driving from
New Hampshire to Dana Farber and Children's hospital

We played the Windham Jaguars and won 2-1 on goals from Connor Bailey and Ed Conroy

We raised over $500.00 for Cancer and Rylie Cruz

Unfortunately Rylie lost a tough fight after a year and a half.

Photos from the 2010 Varsity Pink game

Select “The Cure” soccer balls -  NFHS approved. 

Team History - Honors & Awards    Return to '10 Team Page

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