For Immediate Release
Mark Goldberg 719.532.8436
mgoldberg@calcas.com

 

 

 

San Mateo, CA, April 17, 2019 – Student-athletes at 64 public middle and high schools in 32 states will gain a competitive edge thanks to a 2019 Thomas R. Brown Athletics Grant from California Casualty. A total of $67,149 is being given this year to help purchase new equipment, improve player safety, and provide uniforms.

The grant is named for California Casualty Chairman Emeritus Tom Brown, an avid sportsman who has observed that lessons learned on athletic fields – teamwork, confidence and sportsmanship – translate to the classroom and beyond.

Examples of how schools will use the 2019 Thomas R. Brown Athletics Grants include:

• Fairvalley Continuation High School (CA) to provide needed uniforms and equipment needed to keep the football, basketball, softball and soccer teams in the Continuation High School League
• Mead High School (CO) to purchase equipment for the unified sports programs that allow students with disabilities to participate with general-education students in football, basketball and soccer
• Bassick High School (CT) for a new net system to benefit the girls volleyball team
• Marshalltown High School (IA) to invest in a tent to protect track and field athletes from inclement weather during meets
• DuQuoin High School (IL) to buy much needed uniforms for the boys basketball team
• Newcomerstown Middle School (OH) to acquire safer helmets for the football team

The awards range from $1,000 to $3,000. Since its inception in 2011, more than $738,000 has been awarded to over 660 schools across the nation.

“The Thomas R. Brown Athletics Grants benefit students and communities, and California Casualty is proud to support that effort,” said Lisa Almeida, Assistant Vice President.

California Casualty has served educators since 1951 and has provided the NEA® Auto and Home Insurance Program since 2000. The company has other initiatives that give back to educators for all their hard work including the $7,500 School Lounge Makeover®, www.NewSchoolLounge.com/NEA; $500 California Casualty Award for Teaching Excellence, in conjunction with the NEA Foundation, www.neafoundation.org/for-educators/awards-for-teaching-excellence; $250 Music and Arts Grants, www.calcasmusicartsgrant.com; and $200 Help Your Classroom grants, www.calcas.com/help-your-classroom.

Founded in 1914, California Casualty provides auto and home insurance to educators, law enforcement, firefighters and nurses across the country. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with service centers in Arizona, Colorado and Kansas, California Casualty has been led by four generations of the Brown Family. To learn more or get a quote, please visit www.calcas.com or call 1.800.800.9410.

2018/2019 Thomas R. Brown Athletics Grant Recipients

Alabama Chickasaw High School Hubbertville School (Eldridge) Arizona Desert Edge High School (Goodyear) Williams Field High School (Gilbert) California Atwater High School Fairvalley Continuation High School (Covina) Garden Grove High School Gridley High School Lewis Middle School (San Diego) REACH Academy (Santa Ana) Solvang Middle School Colorado Fort Lupton Middle School Mead High School (Longmont) Prairie Heights Middle School (Evans) Connecticut Bassick High School (Bridgeport) Stonington High School (Pawcatuck) Florida Eau Gallie High School (Melbourne) Georgia Westover High School (Albany) Idaho Initial Point High School (Kuna) Wendell Middle School Iowa Marshalltown High School Illinois Beardstown Jr./Sr. High School DuQuoin High School (DuQuoin) Jack London Middle School (Wheeling) Indiana Cloverdale High School North Harrison Middle School Kansas J.C. Harmon High School (Kansas City) Kentucky Crawford Middle School (Lexington) Ockerman Middle School (Florence) Maryland Oakdale High School (Ijamsville) Minnesota New London-Spicer High School/Middle School Round Lake-Brewster Middle School Missouri Grandview Middle School St. Joseph Central High School

Montana Trout Creek School North Carolina Jones Senior High School (Trenton)   Nebraska Alfonza W. Davis Middle School (Omaha) Millard North High School (Omaha) New Jersey Clayton High School Copeland Middle School (Rockaway) Pompton Lakes High School New Mexico Alamogordo High School Valley Middle School (Ribera) Ohio Logan-Hocking Middle School Newcomerstown Middle School Oklahoma Sky Ranch (Moore) Oregon Astoria Middle School Parrish Middle School (Salem) Philomath Middle School Pennsylvania Lincoln Middle School (Lancaster) Meadville Area High School North Pocono High School (Covington Township) South Carolina Orangeburg Wilkinson High School Tennessee Fayette Ware Comprehensive High School (Somerville) Texas Estacado High School (Lubbock) Virginia Fairfax High School Falling Creek Middle School (North Chesterfield) Vermont Leland and Gray Union Middle/High School (Townshend) Washington Eisenhower Middle School (Everett) Sequim High School Whatcom Middle School (Bellingham) Wilson Middle School (Yakima) West Virginia Cameron High School Wyoming Powell High School