Former Husker athletes help raise hundreds of dollars for students to travel to Europe

On Saturday alums from Exeter–Milligan took on former Husker athletes in a fundraising basketball game as they aimed to raise money for four high school students to visit Europe in June.

“It’s crazy. We’ve done a lot of fundraising and have worked really hard to get to go this trip, and it’s getting down to the last few months and I’m getting really excited,” Daisy Kanode a sophomore said.

Daisy, Blake, Cammie, and Clint need to raise more than $7,000 each for their trip abroad to seven different European countries.

So to have people from their town and former Huskers come out to help raise money for their trip it meant so much.

“I mean it’s just so cool that they would be willing to just come out for no reason and just to a small school, like Exeter–Milligan and just do it for a charity for us,” Cammie Harrison a sophomore said.

For the organizers of this alumni basketball game, they say it couldn’t happen to a better group of kids.

“Well this group of kids is really special to the community and my daughter is classmates with some of them so it was really easy,” Josh Garcia the event’s organizer said.

Even with Husker and Exeter–Milligan alums putting on a good show.

The main reason all of these people came together is to have these four students live out one of their biggest dreams.

“I’m going to be very happy it’s always been a dream of mind to go to Europe, and I’ve wanted to go there ever since I was a little kid, and I figured out how it was,” Blake Meyer a sophomore said.