Teamwork Results in Golf Cart Donation for Bolingbrook High School Baseball

Submitted by Valley View School District:

Thanks to an amazing effort by community members, Bolingbrook High School’s baseball program now has a 1995 Yamaha gas golf cart to carry equipment, field preparation materials and a whole lot more.

“Things like this don’t just happen in a vacuum,” VVSD School Board President Steve Quigley, who coordinated the donation process, told BHS baseball squad members. “It happens because people care and are trying to help out.”

It all started nearly a year ago when St. Andrews Golf and Country Club General Manager Bill Crouse, who is a Bolingbrook resident, asked if the club could donate the used cart to BHS baseball.

Quigley set the wheels in motion that resulted in Art Coon at the Wilco body shop offering to have his students clean up and paint the cart as a class project and Kevin Gockman donating Sherwin Williams paint.

Kevin Palmer of Bolingbrook Signs provided stickers that say “Bolingbrook Baseball” and Crouse donated two Louisville Sluggers that are now attached to the front canopy supports.

Quigley and Palmer presented the cart to BHS Principal Yolanda Jordan, Athletic Director Rob Rose and Head Varsity Baseball Coach Scott Thyer Thursday after school.