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Top high school players from around North and South Carolina visited Shriners Hospitals for Children in Greenville, SC. The players will participate in the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas on Dec. 17 in Spartanburg. |
Inspiring, amazing and eye-opening are just a few words high school football players use to describe their Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas experience.
For 75 years, outstanding players from North and South Carolina public schools have participated in the Shrine Bowl. The week before each game, players visit Shriners Hospitals for Children® — Greenville to meet patients and see first-hand how their participation will help the hospital continue to provide excellent orthopaedic care to children.
During the tours, players get to see areas of the hospital not normally open to the public, such as the hospital’s surgical suites, movement analysis lab, and prosthetics and orthotics department.
For the first time ever, this year’s game will feature an employee of Shriners Hospitals for Children — Greenville. Dean Waters, director of engineering, environmental service, and safety & security, was chosen to officiate the 2011 Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas. Each year only four of the 700 officials in the state are chosen to officiate at the Shrine Bowl. Officials can only participate in a Shrine Bowl game once.
Waters has been an official for 16 years.“When you get the Shrine Bowl game it is the highest game you can get," said Waters. "We have officials who have been in for 20 years who have not done this game and most will retire without doing this game.”
The 2012 Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas game will be played at Gibbs Stadium at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, on Saturday, December 17.