Help BC Grad Set Record: highest altitude soccer game in history
Jacqui Hannon, Boston College graduate, is asking for your help. she wants to help set a record with Equal Playing Field to play the highest altitude football (soccer) game in history.
In June, a group of women, from around the world, and she will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa and playing the world’s highest game of soccer in the crater of the mountain.
We are undertaking this challenge in order to raise awareness for women’s sports around the globe. This is a very broad explanation of the trip, if you are interested in learning more about the campaign you can go to the website.
This project is one step along the way to equality in sport, our way of pushing for equal representation and respect on the pitch and in life.
Jacqui graduated from Boston College in May with a degree in elementary education. During her undergrad, she was a sprinter on the women’s track and field team. Currently, she is a graduate student, at Boston College, studying moderate special needs. Also, she is working full time as an intern at the Bowen Elementary School in the third grade.
To learn a little bit more about why I am undertaking this challenge you can go to my fundraising page.