Hoops for Davis

Hoops for Davis is an annual celebration of Davis' life through the experience of basketball. The event is designed to bring awareness to the Stanwood-Camano community by emphasizing community support and service. Everyone suffers losses and they are felt by more than family. The community often comes together and helps one and other when someone is suffering. It is a strong community that seeks to help out others during hardships such as death, fire, flooding, injury, financial hardship, etc. Thank you for helping our community and helping others through your service and support.

The Event

Basketball games such as Firemen vs. Policemen, High School Staff vs. Middle School Staff, Young Alumni vs. Old Alumni and Juniors vs. Seniors are played through the evening. At the same time, everyone is invited to bid on numerous silent auction items donated by members of the community, local businesses and sports franchises. Entrance to the event is free so the casual atmosphere and basketball games make this an ideal activity for families.

The 5th Grade Game

The night always starts off with the 5th grade game. In order to participate in the game, fifth graders must write an essay about their thoughts on community service. They are asked to answer the following questions in their paper.

• What is you definition of community?
• What is community service?
• Why do you feel community service is an important part of a strong community?
• What types of community service have you been involved with?

Their papers are posted in the lobby during the event each year.

There are two reasons a game for fifth-graders was chosen. First, it is the end of elementary school and the start of a new adventure in middle school. Second, Davis was in fifth grade when he passed away.

Sponsors

If you would like to sponsor the tournament, please contact us. We would be happy to discuss the sponsorship options with you.

Pre-Order 2012 Shirts

You can pre-order the 2012 Hoops for Davis t-shirts ($12) and seatshirts ($30) by contacting us. You get to pick your color! Here is this year's design.

2012 Hoops for Davis T-Shirt Design

2012 Event Information

If you have an item that you think would be great for the silent auction, please let us know!

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See more pictures and stay up-to-date on the Davis Carlson Memorial Facebook page.

2011 Event

Hoops participants and their fans raised $7,000 through donations, raffles, auction bids and concession sales at the 2011 event. Families were treated to six basketball games while also parusing the silent auction items.

Following the Fifth Grade game, Ireland and Savanna Woods sang an incredible rendition of our National Anthem. Then the typical Teacher/Firefighter, Old/Young Alumni, Freshman/Sophomore, Junior/Senior games were played. Thrown in-between all of those, and new (old!) rivalry was contested between the Nike and Adidas stores from Seattle Premium Outlets at Quil Ceda Village.