For MHS Class of 2017 graduates Jack
Hollinshead and Luke Razzante playing baseball is as much a part of life as
working and studying. It’s just that natural.
It’s the reason
why, during his senior year at Mayfield High School, Jack began the My Inner
Warrior Foundation, a non-profit organization to provide opportunities to inner
city youth and teen baseball programs. Jack is the founder and Executive
Director.
Longtime
childhood friend Luke Razzante joined forces with Jack as the President of My
Inner Warrior Foundation. Together the two men hope to bring the game of
baseball into the lives of underprivileged athletes.
“Ultimately, our
foundation is working to create a year-long, sustainable and opportunistic
training program that will give full access to trainers, coaches and tutors for
inner-city athletes.” said Jack, a freshman at Wittenberg University where he
also is a member of the baseball team. “The My Inner
Warrior program we are developing is to teach and implement structure,
dedication, passion, hard work, and grit into the lives of the inner-city
youth.”
The
Foundation has created the "My Inner Warrior Hit Tracker Program which is
a platform to bring together college and high school baseball teams to create a
campaign (www.pledgeit.org/for/myinnerwarrior), and gain pledgers/donors throughout their season.
“A pledger will commit to donating a specific amount
of money per hit throughout the entire season,” Jack said. “So, you donate .50
cents a hit and the team accumulates 100 hits throughout the season, the
pledger would donate $50. This program is one we see really developing on a local,
regional and national scale within the next couple years.”
He added the Mayfield Baseball program has joined My
Inner Warrior and started their campaign (www.pledgeit.org/mhsbaseball2018).
“Growing up and seeing my
dad manage and direct a non-profit foundation of his own filled a special spot
in my heart. I knew that one day that I too would want to run my own
non-profit,” Jack said. “One night, the idea came; an organization for athletes
who don't have the resources I was so blessed to have growing up. That’s
our mission.”