MURFREESBORO — Students
in an MTSU program planning class are working hard to bring a disabled
veteran’s quality of life up to par, and golf aficionados are invited to help.
The Bounce Back Golf Scramble is scheduled for Veterans Day,
Saturday, Nov. 11, at Champions Run Golf Course, 14262 Mt. Pleasant Road in
Rockvale. A scramble is a competition in which each player in a team of two or
more hits a tee shot with the next shot coming from the best lie of the group’s
shots.
To register for the scramble, go to www.active.com and search for “Bounce Back
Scramble.” Teams are limited to four people each up to a cap of 20 teams.
Proceeds will go to benefit Homes for Our Troops, a
privately funded nonprofit organization that “builds and donates specially
adapted custom homes nationwide for severely injured post-9/11 veterans,”
according to www.hfotusa.org.
Students chose retired U.S. Army Sgt. Bryan Camacho of
Murfreesboro as the veteran to benefit from a new, more accessible home.
On Dec. 21, 2007, Camacho was serving as an infantryman in
Iraq when his vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device, throwing him
from the vehicle. His back was broken, paralyzing him from the waist down.
Camacho sustained further injuries on Nov. 15, 2014, when
his specially adapted truck spun out of control on an icy road and rolled into
a ditch. His neck was broken, paralyzing him from the neck down.
“(Homes for Our Troops is) an amazing organization in that
they build all over the country, but they’ll let you pick … what veteran you
want your money to go to,” said Joey Gray, director of the Leisure, Sports and
Tourism Studies program and associate professor in the Department of Health and
Human Performance.
Gray said her students are required to plan the golf
scramble from start to finish, including arranging for fundraising, marketing,
publicity, food, beverages, signage and sponsorships. In addition, this event
includes a post-scramble dinner, videos of people who helped and door prizes.
“Usually, you have about a year to plan events,” said Gray.
“We have three months.”
Marcus Evans, a junior from Memphis, Tennessee, hopes to put
what he learns in the class to use in a job with a professional sports
franchise after graduation.
“It’s kind of difficult, but I think I’m managing well,”
said Evans. “I’m doing as much as I can because now I just started working” at
an off-campus job.
Grading is based on performance on weekly assignments and
progress reports, as well as professionalism.
For more information, contact Gray at 615-904-8359 or
joey.gray@mtsu.edu.
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