{"id":16197,"date":"2020-06-26T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-york-jayhawks-aau-team-is-using-coronavirus-shutdown-for-good\/"},"modified":"2020-06-26T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T19:34:00","slug":"new-york-jayhawks-aau-team-is-using-coronavirus-shutdown-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-york-jayhawks-aau-team-is-using-coronavirus-shutdown-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"#New York Jayhawks AAU team is using coronavirus shutdown for good"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#New York Jayhawks AAU team is using coronavirus shutdown for good<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 26, 2020 |<\/span> 3:34pm <\/p>\n

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\n New York Jayhawks director Jay David (second from right) and program directors Andrew Metz at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens with his arm around his mother, Marjorie David, a nurse practitioner at the hospital.<\/span>
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\n This is supposed to be the busy season for Jay David and his AAU program. The time his players make names for themselves. When they can show college coaches how they can help their schools down the road and earn scholarship offers.<\/p>\n

Instead, due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, there has been no AAU season. The New York Jayhawks haven\u2019t done any travel<\/a>ing. They haven\u2019t played any game<\/a>s. But that doesn\u2019t mean David and his players are spending their days without a purpose.<\/p>\n

Quite the opposite actually.<\/p>\n

Earlier, while the pandemic ravaged the city, David\u2019s program provided food, sneakers, gloves, face masks and face shields to three local hospitals. Sunday they will be hosting a virtual 5K walk\/run\/ride called \u201cGo The Distance\u201d to raise money for five food pantries in each of the city\u2019s boroughs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough we can\u2019t really work as much and we can\u2019t run tournaments and do that stuff, we\u2019re a little bit more fortunate than most,\u201d said David, who is also an assistant coach at Long Island Lutheran and works with Adidas on community service projects in the area. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to sit around and watch a city that I grew up in and thrived in and that supported me and molded me suffer and not be able to use my platform that we\u2019re blessed enough to have. The worst thing you can do during a pandemic is just sit around and not try to help other people. I didn\u2019t want to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks have come a long way under David\u2019s leadership, earning an Adidas sponsorship four years ago and developing players like Thunder guard Hamidou Diallo, Illinois forward Giorgi Bezhanishvili, Harvard forward Chris Ledlum and Illinois recruit Andre Curbelo, among many others. Part of the program has always included community service. A Queens native, the 40-year-old David believes it\u2019s important to give back.<\/p>\n

Jaden Kirshner, a Jayhawks player and Horace Mann student, suggested a social media<\/a> pushup-thon contest to raise money, but that had already been done by another AAU program. So after discussing it with players and coaches in the program, the 5K idea was hatched by David, program director Andrew Metz and Kirshner.<\/p>\n

They have been receiving up to $10 dollars per mile. At 10 a.m. on Sunday, everyone will congregate on Zoom, and they will have a moment of silence for lives lost. Everyone will then have an hour to complete the 5K before reconvening on Zoom at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n

Right now, they have roughly 100 participants. It will feature players in the program, their families, friends and a few companies are also involved. So far, $11,137 has been donated or pledged.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it does is it reinforces what our space should really be about,\u201d David said. \u201cThis reinforces what the actual word grassroots stands for and it reinforces what our program be able to do, do well for yourself and do good for others. It\u2019s important for [our kids] to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n

To contribute or be a part of the 5K walk\/run\/ride, visit www.givingzone.com\/project\/jcbjxbxzeg\/ny-jayhawks<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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