Page 10 - Hobe Sound Reflections - March '25

Page 10, Hobe Sound

Good works

Community Swings Into

Action At Mark Garwood

Foundation’s Fifth Annual
Racquets For Recovery

Sunny skies
welcomed more than
150 players to the Mark
Garwood Foundation’s
Fifth Annual Racquets
for Recovery Tennis
and P ickleball
T ou rna m e nt on
Saturday, Feb. 1. The
event at North River
Shores Tennis Club in
Stuart, raised funds for
the Foundation’s Mark
Garwood Phoenix
Scholarship program. Erica Garwood, Felece Marks, Diane Minogue, Patrizia Volpe, Amy Stoneburg, John Garwood
The program provides
scholarships to adults
in South Florida
who are in recovery,
committed to long- John and Erica Garwood
term sobriety, and
ready to begin or continue their education.
Players competed in men’s and women’s doubles for
both tennis and pickleball and enjoyed lunch and an awards
ceremony afterward. The tennis tournament was presented
by Hanley Foundation and Seacoast Bank, and the pickleball
tournament was presented by Ted Glasrud Associates.
Kate Ryan Watkins, a Mark Garwood Phoenix
Scholarship recipient, spoke during the event. Through
the foundation’s support and encouragement, she earned
her master’s degree and fulfilled her dream of becoming a
therapist, helping others in recovery. Watkins was joined
by 20 fellow scholarship recipients who volunteered Turner Benoit, Steve Docekal
to help at the event, ensuring this year’s Racquets for
Recovery was another success. Good Works on page 11 Volunteers and Phoenix Scholarship recipients

Kate Watkins

Jamie Rotenizer, Maggie
Nicholas Galligan, Chris Miele Barnard

Kate Keller, Lindsey White