In recent years, Springfield College Athletics has made a committement to creating a partnership with Team IMPACT. To date, the football, women's basketball, men's basketball, women's lacrosse, men's lacrosse, women's gymnastics, men's gymnastics, field hockey, wrestling, baseball, and softball teams have been involved with the program. At one time, Springfield College's had the most partnerships of any Division III program in the country.
Since its inception, Team IMPACT has created relationships that have enhanced the lives of hundreds of courageous children and touched the lives of thousands of student athletes across the country. The team behind Team IMPACT is honored and inspired to continue and expand the long standing tradition of athletes paying tribute to something that is far greater than themselves; the ability to come together, serve the community and support each and every member of the team through adversity both on and off the field.
Team IMPACT children are diagnosed with a wide variety of life-threatening and chronic illnesses, yet a common denominator is the impact their diagnosis has had on their quality of life.
Football
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Luke Bradley
Team: Football
Year of Partnership: Spring of 2013
Hometown: South Hadley, Mass.
Condition: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, a type of cancer in which the bone marrow makes too many lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell).
#LukeStronger
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 Women's Basketball
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Lisa Hartley
Team: Women's Basketball
Year of Partnership: Spring of 2015
Hometown: Palmer, Mass.
Condition: Type B and Bulky Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Springfield College women's basketball standout Ava Adamopoulos '17 received the first-ever Tom Waddell Leveling the Playing Field Award at the Inaugural Sports and Social Justice Symposium for her hard work with Team IMPACT and Lisa Hartley
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Women's Lacrosse
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 Jillian Allair
 Team: Women's Lacrosse
 Year of Partnership: Fall of 2016
 Hometown: Ludlow, Mass.
 Condition: Diagnosed with a very rare genetic disorder, has had four major spinal sugeries and was born legally blind.
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Men's Gymnastics
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Zachary LaBroad
Team: Men's Gymnastics
Year of Partnership: Fall of 2016Â
Condition: Cerebral Palsy
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Men's Lacrosse
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Alexander Blais
Team: Men's Lacrosse
Year of Partnership: Spring of 2017
Hometown: East Longmeadow, Mass.
Condition: Brain Tumor
Note: Alex unfortunately passed away on June 9, 2018 following his courageous battle with brain cancer.
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Women's Gymnastics
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 Piper Lundin
 Team: Women's Gymnastics
 Town: Granby, Conn.
 Year of Partnership: Spring of 2017
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Men's Basketball
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 Jondel Rivera RuizÂ
 Team: Men's Basketball
 Year of Partnership: Spring of 2017
 Condition: Cystic Fibrosis
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Field Hockey
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 Abigail Hamberg
 Team: Field Hockey
 Year of Partnership: Fall of 2017.Â
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Softball
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 Talia Soto
 Team: Softball
 Year of Partnership: Fall of 2018
 Town: Springfield, Mass.
 Condition: Left Pelvic Ewing Sarcoma
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Women's Tennis

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 Quinn Brady
 Team: Women's Tennis
 Year of Partnership: Spring 2018
 Town: Longmeadow, Mass.
 Condition: Diamond Blackfan Anemia
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Women's Soccer

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 Claire Frazer
 Team: Women's Soccer
 Year of Partnership: Spring 2018
 Town: Longmeadow, Mass.
 Condition: Spina Bifida
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Baseball

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 John Hart
 Team: Baseball
 Year of Partnership: Spring 2019
 Town: Wilbraham, Mass. |
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Wrestling

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 Matthew Pepe
 Team: Wrestling
 Year of Partnership: Fall 2018
 Town: Springfield, Mass
Note: Matthew unfortunately passed away on October 4, 2018.
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