Hoops for Hope
Posted by David Berggren on Apr 11, 2017
Congratulations to George Alexander, the 2017 winner of SP Rotary’s Hoops for Hope contest. With 1,835 points, George received the Berggren-Hebl traveling trophy and will have the opportunity to designate a charity for the over $400 raised by the event for the Sun Prairie Rotary Foundation.
Hoops for Hope is a Rotary fund raiser centered on the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Each player pledges a penny for every point scored by six teams they choose before the tourney begins. Twenty-eight Rotarians participated this year.
Other notable Hoops for Hope achievements this year include:
- Anne Oberle with the most points per game played (81.11)
- Jon Landsverk (1,391) with the closest to the overall average score of 1,402.6 points
- Josh Kindkepple was recognized has the high scorer on the second page
- Deanna Popke and Judy Veith were recognized for coming in second place (1,762) with exactly the same picks.