News: Benefit for Long Island Counselors
(Long Island, N.Y.) Players from the Spurs, Notre Dame University, and St. John’s University teamed up to play basketball for a Long Island benefit. The event was designed to raise funds in the memory of three camp counselors who were killed in a car accident on July 15th of last year in Floral Park. The event will be held Thursday July 28th as part of the Malone/Mulhall Benefit Basketball Game.
Tyrone Nash of Notre Dame, Danny Green from the San Antonio Spurs, and Justin Burrell of St. John’s University will participate in the benefit game this week. The game will raise funds for sisters Paige Malone and Jaime Malone, as well as Michael Mulhall of Floral Park. The three were killed while traveling to work at a summer camp as counselors for the developmentally disabled.
Twenty-two-year-old Nash is a native from Long Island and played at Lawrence Woodmere Academy and Northfield Mt. Hermon. He is six-feet-eight-inches tall and plays forward. Green, also a Long Island native from North Babylon, stands six-feet-six-inches tall and plays guard-forward. He also played college basketball for North Carolina. Burrell plays forward and is from the Bronx, but played for Our Savior Lutheran/Bridgton Academy. He stands six-feet-eight inches tall.
The parents of the deceased camp counselors founded The Jaime and Paige Malone Foundation in the beginning of this year. It has a dual purpose, functioning to aid those with special needs as well as families who have experienced tragedies. The foundation offers monetary assistance as well as scholarships to the University of Richmond. The Malone sisters both attended the University of Richmond during their years of working as camp counselors at the Camp Anchor Park, located in Lido Beach.
The game was organized by a former boyfriend of the youngest Malone sister. Sources stated that basketball has been therapeutic to the friends and families of the victims. The boyfriend claimed that the family would often convene at their home or meet at a nearby park to play.
The benefit will continue annually in memory of the counselors. Sources stated that the boyfriend was happy to know elite players agreed to participate in the benefit. He had hoped to see the arena as full as possible during the night of the event.
The money raised at this year’s benefit game will be donated to Camp Anchor. This was the destination of the victims when their vehicle crashed unexpectedly. A central portion of Camp Anchor’s therapy involves recreational sports like basketball.
