SAN DIEGO - In partnership with Team IMPACT, the San Diego State baseball team welcomes Derrick Peterson, a seven-year-old from Temecula, California, who was diagnosed with Nephrotic Syndrome at age 2, as an official member of the SDSU baseball team. Derrick's Draft Day is scheduled for this Friday, which happens to also be his eighth birthday.
Derrick will attend practices, serve as bat boy during SDSU home games, and attend official team events throughout the year.
Team IMPACT is a national non-profit organization that pairs children with chronic or serious illnesses with local college athletic teams with aspirations to form life-long bonds and life-changing outcomes. The organization currently partners with over 500 athletic teams from 107 different conferences across NCAA Division I, II, and III.
The San Diego State baseball team opens its 2019 season on Friday, Feb. 15 at home against San Francisco.
About Team IMPACT
Team IMPACT is a national nonprofit headquartered in Boston, MA that connects children facing serious or chronic illnesses with college athletic teams, forming life-long bonds and life-changing outcomes. Since 2011, Team IMPACT has matched over 1,700 children with more than 500 colleges and universities in 49 states, reaching over 50,000 participating student-athletes. The child joins the athletic team and the student-athletes join the child's support team. Throughout the journey, the child gains strength, camaraderie and support while the student-athletes experience lessons of courage, resiliency and perspective they can't learn in a classroom.
For information on Team IMPACT or to learn how to get involved, please visit www.goteamimpact.com.
Baseball to Sign Team IMPACT's Derrick Peterson
