The Greene County High School girls’ basketball team ended the season with five wins and 16 losses, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. The last act as a team came last weekend in Iowa City and head coach Dean Lyons explains. “Through our annual Pink Out and other fundraising activities, the girls raised a lot of money. So what we did last weekend was go to Iowa City. Our first stop Friday was to the Ronald McDonald House, a place for families of children with serious illnesses to stay free of charge. Our girls cooked spaghetti supper for the 35-40 people that were at the Ronald McDonald House that night. Now, they raised a lot of money over the course of the season and could have used some of that to pay for supper, but they wanted to pay for it out of their own pockets. So, we went to the grocery store and bought the supplies to feed all these people. They cooked it themselves, and even served homemade cookies for dessert! I’m so proud of them for doing that and for giving selflessly of themselves to help others.”

We’ll continue with Coach Lyons tomorrow as he tells about their visit to the Stead Family Children’s Hospital.