Immaculate Heart High School is a small school, with about 100 students in Oro Valley. It plays in the state’s smallest sports classification, Division IV or Division V, and has 11 boys and girls varsity sports.
The Knights travel far more than larger schools, who benefit from dozens of Tucson rivals. But Immaculate Heart this year has games scheduled in Sells, Duncan, Willcox, Benson, Thatcher, Nogales, Elfrida, San Manuel, Gilbert, Chandler and as far away as Yuma.
Until this year, the Knights went about their travel plans the way a Little League team might: Ask the parents to sign up as volunteers and serve as a shuttle system.
It became a significant hardship, as it is for most small schools.
But in the lead-up to the fall sports schedule, the school’s search for help was finally answered. Robertson Auto Auctions on South Swan Road, owned by Rod Robertson, donated $20,000 for the purchase of a van that will transport IMHS athletes to their faraway road games.
That’s a potential life-saver.
It sure beats asking mom and dad to drive the late shift, six (or more) to a car, driving dark desert roads between here and nowhere.
