For the second time this season, the battle on the Sevastopol High School basketball court will take a back seat to a much more important fight off it.
Monday’s boys basketball game between Sevastopol and Gibraltar will be played in honor of 8-year-old Violet Tanck, a Sevastopol Elementary School student who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of Ewing sarcoma.
The third-grader has already had a kidney and some lymph nodes removed and has months of chemotherapy and radiation treatments ahead at Children’s Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
Violet’s aunt and Sevastopol Athletic Director Brooke Tanck is no stranger to sports serving as a backdrop for a larger effort. Earlier this year, Sevastopol’s Stronger Together game against Sturgeon Bay raised more than $12,000 for the families of Blake Butch and Sevastopol student Luna Ramirez through T-shirt sales, a 60-second “Cash for a Cause” bucket collection and other fundraising activities.
Tanck says it is truly amazing to see the Door County community continue to come together for its neighbors.
A bake and soup sale, a miracle minute, a free-throw competition and paper butterfly sales will take place during Monday night’s slate of basketball games. The JV tips off at 5:30 p.m., followed by the varsity game at 7 p.m.
You can learn more about Wings for Violet Night and how you can support the Tanck family below.
