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Varsity Girls Basketball Team and Local Nonprofit Collaborate on Art Show

Athletes, teachers, coaches, and an alumna helped put on an art show to celebrate the miracle of organ donation.
Good athletes elevate sport into art. In March, Steward’s state champion varsity girls basketball team brought sport and art together to elevate the human spirit. 

With the help of local nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and Lower School art teacher Cindy Grissom, the girls basketball team and coaches hosted a public art show titled RESILIENCE to celebrate Steward parent Latasha Traynham’s double-lung transplant nearly a year prior. They also presented Mrs. Traynham with a basketball commemorating her 10,000,000 breath.

The art show showcased Steward’s schoolwide theme while raising awareness for organ donation. A majority of the artworks were offered for sale, and the team raised over $600, all of which they donated to UNOS’ lifesaving mission. Local artist and Steward alumna Lindsey Leach ’04, senior development officer at UNOS, helped guide the show’s progress alongside coach Wallace Inge.

“We have this whole other set of skills we thought we could put to good use as a team,” Mr. Inge said. “These are truly talented, creative young people.”

UNOS, which manages the nation’s organ transplant list, scheduled the event for March 6. When the in-person opening was closed due to COVID-19, they arranged a virtual walk-through on May 6. Mrs. Trayham’s daughter and varsity basketball player Mimi Traynham ’21 summarized the project’s resounding positivity. “Our team is a family outside of the actual family,” she said, “like a second home.”
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