Recipients

Help with unexpected medical expenses. Carrie is the wife of long time DAWG Jonathan Jay. The Jay family have been extremely generous with their time, money and hearts since the inception of DAWG Nation. Carrie recently spent almost three weeks in the hospital after complications from routine surgery. Her spleen was nicked causing fluid buildup around her lungs and severe pain. It does ap…

Help with uncovered medical expenses. Brian Wassberg, affectionately known as “Opie” in the hockey community, has been playing goalie for over 40 years in numerous hockey leagues including the Edge Old Time Hockey League (EOHL) at The Edge Ice Arena. The years playing goalie have taken their toll, and Opie recently had both knees surgically replaced. Opie has financial needs due to time o…

Help with unexpected medical expenses. Savannah Lehman is the daughter of Kevin Lehman, a member of the Army of Darkness hockey team who are longtime friends and supporters of DAWG Nation. In September of 2015 Savannah had a blood clot in her pulmonary artery and was rushed to the hospital where she suffered a stoppage to her heart in the emergency room. She miraculously pulled through after…

Help with expenses from a tragic event. Dave was a hero long before the events of July 2015, when the Flight For Life Helicopter on which he worked as a nurse went down and crashed in Summit County. While trying to rescue the pilot the copter exploded and left Dave in critical condition, with 3rd degree burns over 90% of his body. Due to the extensiveness of his injuries he remains in a burn…

Help with expenses after a tragic event. Lincoln Sherman was all about hockey… he not only played the sport with the Ft Collins Adult Hockey Assoc, and was always up for a last minute sub position should a team be in need, but he helped found FCPHL (Ft. Collins Pond Hockey League) back in 1992. And when he wasn’t playing the game, he was teaching it… helping many to get their skates moving o…

Help with medical expenses. Despite being only 26 years old David knows a thing or two about illness, as he’s lived with a chronic disease since he was 12. After a long search and many doctors and tests he has only recently received the correct diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease, and is now undergoing treatments that have included 4 weeks of chemo therapy. A fighter, and with an amazing at…

Help with medical expenses. Jeff is a single dad with two young girls. After being diagnosed with prostate cancer, Jeff’s world was turned upside down. Jeff was treated at John’s Hopkins in Maryland and after a couple of difficult months things are looking up for this avid hockey player. Described as “always the best teammate”, Jammer is back on the ice but his medical bills have continued t…

Help with challenging medical bills. Jeff McMenamin was one of the founders of the Monkees hockey team that has played throughout the Denver area since the mid ‘90s. A core group of players from the original Monkees is now an integral part of DAWG Nation through their participation on the DAWG’s II hockey team and the annual DAWG Bowl tournament. Jeff’s wife Linda, who is a registere…

A donation after a tragic event. Doug Smail, a former NHL star and long time hockey coach was dealt the worst blow any parent can be dealt when he lost his son Cody in 2011. Cody was a young man that followed in his father’s footsteps with his love of hockey. At the 2015 “Tee it Up for DAWG Nation” golf tournament Cody was honored when a check in the amount of $2,620.00 was donated to the “Ame…

Help with unexpected medical expenses. Harvey Lee’s daughter Sophie contracted E Coli and this quickly led to a domino effect, including kidney failure, fluid in the lungs (for which she had to have a breathing tube inserted), and most recently pancreatitis. She has been in the hospital during that time, and Harvey and his family have been with her the whole way. He is running out of …

Help with medical bills. Becca had a back injury some time ago that required surgery last year. Her recovery is up and down with times that she can play hockey and times she can’t sit up. She is going to need another surgery in the near future and her being a full time student at DU to get her doctorate money has been extremely tight, and causing doctor bills to pile up faster than she can p…

Help with accessibility and rehabilitation expenses. Recently, DAWG Nation discovered that previous recipient, Cody Beekman, needed help to continue his rehabilitation at the Spinal Cord Injury Center. Cody Beekman is everything that DAWG Nation is all about. On Halloween in 2011, Cody’s car was struck by a drunk driver, and he was paralyzed from the chest down. When we got word of this, …