“WNBA Cares” is more than a marketing slogan for its charity initiatives. It is a way of life across the league.
Just ask Bridget Pettis, assistant coach of the Chicago Sky who started the Project Roots nonprofit initiative in December that recently took part in a tree-planting event in Phoenix. According to the Arizona Republic, the goal of the nonprofit is to “educate and feed.”
Pettis also was a former assistant coach of the Phoenix Mercury that won championships in 2007 and 2009. One of the aims is to get more people educated on the food that they are consuming.
If you know what you’re planting, you know what you’re eating.
–Bridget Pettis, Chicago Sky assistant coach (The Arizona Republic)
Another goal she has with the initiative is to feed the homeless. She said to the Arizona Republic that she noticed that many areas in the southern part of Phoenix did not have gardens and that it brought her back to her own roots in the Chicago area.
I was probably the only kid that had a garden.
–Bridget Pettis, Chicago Sky assistant coach (The Arizona Republic)
And Pettis is not only limiting herself to Phoenix and says she wants to place gardens wherever one can be put.
I think it’s time to get out of the house and clap for each other.
–Bridget Pettis, Chicago Sky assistant coach (The Arizona Republic)
