“They went out to the businesses and did the talking,” said Baumann. More than 70 prizes were all solicited by the volleyball players. “Kate came up with the saying on the back: ‘Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit because there are footprints on the moon.’”īaumann also anticipated that a raffle - 1,000 tickets were printed - will be a sell-out before tonight.
“We started selling the T-shirts back in August,” Baumann said, adding that the latest shipment - already sold out - was expected today. The color orange was chosen because it is Kate’s favorite color. Tonight’s fundraiser is a joint effort between the W-WG volleyball and Loggers teams, and preparations have been under way for months, beginning with T-shirt sales. … It’s just amazing what’s she’s done and where she’s going to go because you know it’s only going to be good things for her.” She’s still playing basketball and volleyball and has been doing a camp on Saturdays in Windom.
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She just tries to figure out how to do things on her own and tries to do her best. She’s always been a driven young lady, and that’s kept up through this, if not increased. “She’s kind of a model citizen, what everybody should aspire to. “She’s doing fantastic,” reported Baumann. The reattachment was successful, but after two weeks infection forced amputation of the limb.īut loss of her arm has just been a bump in the road for Kate, according to W-WG Volleyball Coach Cathy Baumann, who coached Kate as a member of the Loggers J-O Volleyball Team and is helping organize tonight’s benefit. Surgery to repair her arm was already under way by the time her parents, Jim and Nikki, reached the hospital. After initial treatment at Sanford Westbrook Medical Center, Kate was taken via air ambulance to North Memorial Hospital Trauma Center in the Twin Cities. On June 17, Kate, her brother Jack and a couple of friends had just finished picking rock and were returning to their home just east of Westbrook when the ATV Ranger she was riding rolled, severing her left arm just above the elbow. The efforts will culminate tonight with an “Orange Out” fundraiser in conjunction with the volleyball match. The shirts - which state ‘Kate’s Kourage’ on the front and a slogan that Kate herself came up with on the back - are just the most visible sign of how the Westbrook community has rallied around the young girl and her family. Six-hundred brightly colored T-shirts have been sold in support of Kate Jorgenson, a Westbrook sixth-grader who lost her left arm as a result of a farming/ATV accident on June 17. WESTBROOK - Expect a sea of orange T-shirts at tonight’s Westbrook-Walnut Grove volleyball match against Southwest United.
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