{"id":64397,"date":"2021-02-12T11:41:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=64397"},"modified":"2021-02-16T07:07:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T11:07:18","slug":"rocket-disc-golf-club-fundraising-for-teammate-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_12_2021\/rocket-disc-golf-club-fundraising-for-teammate-with-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Disc Golf Club Fundraising for Teammate with Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Mason Bloom lost his leg to cancer in high school, but that didn\u2019t stop him from joining the Rocket disc golf club.<\/p>\n

And when Bloom\u2019s cancer returned \u2014 including the presence of inoperable tumors in his neck that forced the early childhood education junior to sit out this semester to undergo chemotherapy \u2014 his teammates decided to help.<\/p>\n

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Competing with a prosthetic leg and maintaining indefatigable joy in the face of any obstacles, Mason Bloom has been an inspiration for his Rocket disc golf club teammates. Now his teammates want to help him.<\/p><\/div>\n

They launched a fundraiser named for one of Bloom\u2019s favorite phrases \u2014 \u201cchain don\u2019t break.\u201d The Chain Don\u2019t Break: Mason Bloom Charity Drive has raised more than $2,500 so far through a GoFundMe<\/a> account and an upcoming disc golf event.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to raise as much money as we can for the Bloom family,\u201d said Rocket disc golf club treasurer Chris Wojciechowski, a Ph.D. candidate in research and measurement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure that they can get through anything they need to do to get Mason through treatment, back to UToledo and back with the game he loves. We don’t have any set goal \u2014 we want to take this fundraiser to the moon. Every dollar we can gather for this family. Not a dime goes to the club. This is purely for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The disc golf event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at Ottawa Park Disc Golf Course. The event will be played from the short tees to give all skill levels a chance at prizes. Registration<\/a> is $25. There will also be a raffle drawing and silent auction.<\/p>\n

Competing with a prosthetic leg and maintaining indefatigable joy in the face of any obstacles, Bloom has been inspiring, Wojciechowski said. But that was not Bloom\u2019s intention.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think Mason gives you a chance to think of him as inspirational. Has he been? Yes. But the man is just so happy that you can’t help but feel that,\u201d Wojciechowski said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s no chance to really recognize his disability beyond being frustrated that it is limiting him. He never seems frustrated by it. He never seems to be \u2018pushing through\u2019 it. He’s just putting in the work like everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no clue that the club was going to do a fundraiser for me,\u201d Bloom said when reached via email. \u201cWhen I found out I can\u2019t put into words how happy I was. Disc golf is an amazing sport but the best part about the Rocket disc golf club is the people. Joining the Rocket disc golf club was one of the best decisions I\u2019ve made.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>

The Chain Don\u2019t Break: Mason Bloom Charity Drive has raised more than $2,500 so far through a GoFundMe account and an upcoming disc golf event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":64399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64402,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64397\/revisions\/64402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}