Feeding hungry families. Representatives from Kansas City Disc Golf presented a check for $10,140 to Bishop Sullivan Center at the center’s Truman Road campus on June 7. From left, KCDC President Peter Cashen, KCDC board member Lupe Herrada, Bishop Sullivan Center Executive Director Michelle Carlstedt and tournament organizer and past KCDC president Jack Rowe. | Photo by Michael Bushnell
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Kansas City Disc Golf Association officials presented a check for $10,140 to the food distribution fund at the Bishop Sullivan Center (6435 Truman Rd.) on June 7. This year’s donation marks 20 years of support between area disc golfers and Bishop Sullivan, and through entry fees for the Ice Bowl tournament (traditionally held in frigid January temperatures), the Disc Golf Association is able to continue this partnership.
Michelle Carlstedt, executive director of the Bishop Sullivan Center, was ecstatic about the additional funding. For more than 50 years, Bishop Sullivan has provided food, assistance and employment assistance to the less fortunate in Kansas City.
“We are incredibly grateful for donations over the past 20 years, and this donation brings our total donations over that time to over $150,000,” Carlstedt said. “This money will go directly to our food pantries, which provide supplemental food to over 1,000 families each month across our two facilities.”
Lupe Herrada, a board member for the Kansas City Disc Golf Association, said the donation came from registration and contest fees from the annual Ice Bowl disc golf tournament, held around the city in January.
“The Ice Bowl tournament takes place every year on the Sunday before the Super Bowl,” Herrada said, “and after the tournament there’s a chili cook-off, games and ways for the community to get involved. Not only can they play disc golf, but they can be a part of the larger community.”
The local disc golf Ice Bowl tournament began in 1987 and has been held annually for 37 years. Only Columbia, Missouri, has a longer history, at 38 years. Helada also noted that the Kansas City Ice Bowl draws competitors from all over the Midwest due to its quality.
