From Boston to New York City, student athletes are connecting with children and families through Team IMPACT.
Active matches made in the Northeast.
Schools participating in 2025.
Family referrals made in 2025.
Engaged student-athletes in 2025.
Mia was only four years old when her family received news no family hopes to hear: Mia has cancer. In December of 2021, she began her journey with the Tufts field hockey team—a journey that allowed Mia to find unexpected positives in her unpredictable experiences.
Team IMPACT teammate Will sits down with Toni Massarotti at Team IMPACT's Game Day Gala to talk about his life-changing match with the Bentley lacrosse team.
True teammates bring out the best in one another. They celebrate wins together and work through challenges together. When Brenden joined the Trinity hockey team in October of 2021, he was shy and had a difficult time making conversation. But his teammate John changed all that, forming an unbreakable bond with Brenden along the way.
When Kristen and her husband Justin signed their daughter Lucy up for Team IMPACT, they had already seen the power that comes with team. Lucy’s best friend, Charlie, was matched with the Harvard soccer team, who embraced him with love and a team of support. Before Charlie unexpectedly passed away in 2021, he passed the ball to Lucy to recognize his dream for her, a dream that she too would have a team of her own. “It was Charlie’s gift,” Kristen, said. “Charlie saw a dream and he saw a future for Lucy that we didn’t understand.”
Lucy was matched with the Boston College women’s lacrosse team in August of 2021, and it didn’t take long for the entire Stiles family to understand the thing that Charlie knew all along. “It is ethereal,” Kristen said. “Out in the ethers, you can feel alone, or you can feel like you’re connected to other like-minded people and have a community and that you are part of something.” That connection is what Team IMPACT and BC lacrosse brought to Kristen, Justin, Lucy, and Lucy’s twin sister, Sophie. “It lifted us up and made these connections in a way I never would have thought.”
Want to help Team IMPACT continue to grow in the midwest? Reach out to our Boston-based team for more information.
For individuals interested in corporate or individual giving, contact Mackenzie Clark, Northeast Director of Development.
For individuals interested in applying as a family or team, contact Emma Simches, Northeast Director of Programs.
When Anthony Pecorella, a Division I kicker and Team IMPACT Fellow, met eight-year-old Cal in the fall of 2019, he knew immediately that they would be buddies. What Anthony didn’t know is that through the years, Cal would grow to be more like a brother—and a huge part of the support system that recently guided Anthony through his own battle.
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