Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer

http://marplenewtown.patch.com
1/30/2012
By Amanda Mahnke

HAVERTOWN—Both schools put up a good fight, but it was ultimately Paxon Hollow Middle School who beat out Haverford Middle School in the final few minutes of game time Friday, making them champions of the Ninth Annual Potter Cup. The friendly competition, held each year between the two middle schools, raised more than $36,000 this year to support Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation For Childhood Cancer.

"We had a dream that we could bring students together in the winter and [promote] cooperation, friendship and sportspersonship," said event organizer and Haverford Middle School assistant athletic director Bill Booth.

    "Now nine years later, it's something we couldn't have imagined." –Bill Booth, event organizer

Nine years ago when the Potter Cup first came to be, Booth and other event organizers decided they wanted to support Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation to do something "for somebody else to make this special...something we can have the students working toward," Booth said.  "[Other cancer fundraising groups] get all the publicity, but we do just as much in our own little world."

Combined with the money raised in the previous eight years of the Potter Cup, the two middle schools have raised nearly $250,000 to combat childhood cancer.

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