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Tennis team thinks green
Front, left to right: Yui Jae Lee, Manuel Scheel, Noah
Jemison, Yenegeta Mengistu. Middle: Jacob Wanner,
Donald Clark, Austin Benner, Dominik Berthold. Back:
Coach Dennis Maust, Austin Groff, Ian Mast, Senator
Mike Brubaker, Isaac Flood, Nick Bybel, Matthew
Wassall, Shinik Choi.
Jemison, Yenegeta Mengistu. Middle: Jacob Wanner,
Donald Clark, Austin Benner, Dominik Berthold. Back:
Coach Dennis Maust, Austin Groff, Ian Mast, Senator
Mike Brubaker, Isaac Flood, Nick Bybel, Matthew
Wassall, Shinik Choi.
In May, the Lancaster Mennonite High School tennis team, assisted by Dr. Ann Bybel, mother of tennis player Nick Bybel, collected over 50 pairs of worn-out sneakers for Nike’s re-use-a-shoe program. The green project grinds up and reuses old sneakers to make all-purpose surfaces for track or basketball, thus preventing the shoes from ending up in a landfill. When Nike requested a photo shoot with a local official, the team invited Senator Brubaker for the occasion.