$1 per ticket, $20 for 25 tickets! 

New baskets added daily!

Contact Liz Menges to purchase tickets if you can't attend - efmenges131@gmail.com

Hoops for Hope is an event run by Michael and Katherine O'Hanlon, conceived of four years ago their older brother, Tim, and features the Garden City High School/Middle School Challenger Basketball team. The goal of Hoops for Hope is to help  bring attention and fans to the Challenger athletes, and the Challenger program in general.

The event incorporates the entire community: the basketball team, cheerleaders, kick line, high school musicians and various student clubs. Sponsors from all over Garden City (and beyond) support the event, and on game day, there are many volunteers from both the high school and the middle school (a great opportunity for community service hours) assisting with raffles, the bake sale, music, photography, buddies of the Challenger players, and more. Students from the primary schools through the high school attend the event, as do many community members who no longer have children in the schools.

Hoops for Hope has become a big success: the most important part of the event is having the gym full of spectators of every age to watch and cheer for the players and knowing that the Challenger players and their families are excited and proud to be the highlight of the day.

Hoops for Hope is also a charitable event:  the proceeds will support I'm Not Done Yet's programs for adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients and survivors at NYU Langone - Mineola (formerly Winthrop).

Mark Weinblatt, MD, chief of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the NYU Langone LI Cancer Center for Kids is retiring after nearly 50 years of practice.

The warmth and hope that Dr. Weinblatt provides to  his young patients and their families - not to mention world-class pediatric cancer treatment - cannot be overstated.  His ties are silly, the rooms are fun, his personality is goofy - anything to alleviate the stresses of a cancer diagnosis (and too often, diagnoses).

"The worst thing in the whole world is to have a child diagnosed with cancer and to watch them suffer.  Dr. Weinblatt made it ok, and for that, I will always be grateful."  -- ETF, mom

Thank you, Dr. Weinblatt, for all the lives you saved and the children you cared for and treated as your own.  Your compassionate care and leadership during the years you were at the CCFK will always be appreciated and never forgotten.  Your patients, their families, your colleagues, and the community will miss you!