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LeBron James Family Foundation surprises East JROTC with uniform drop

t East Community Learning Center’s annual winter sports assembly, five students in the school’s Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program kicked the event off with a drill routine.Front and center was 18-year-old Dillon Benefield, the JROTC commanding officer, who led the team in rhythmically spinning and tossing rifles before they marched single file off the gym floor.Right behind them, representatives from the LeBron James Family Foundation burst through the doors and announced to the rowdy crowd that they were surprising a group at the school with brand new Nike uniforms.“When they said Nike, I was expecting the basketball team,” Benefield said.To Benefield’s surprise, along with others on the team, two fellow JROTC members ran out onto the gym floor sporting bright red Nike tracksuits with the school’s dragon mascot across the chest and matching Beats headphones.The LeBron James Family Foundation (LJFF) awarded the tracksuits and headphones to all 40 members of the school’s JROTC team Friday during the assembly as part of its ongoing “Earned Not Given” uniform drop initiative.LJFF started the initiative to encourage a positive cultural change after James and others in his inner circle learned about negative behavior and poor sportsmanship exhibited at some Akron Public School sporting events, said foundation spokesperson Stephanie Rosa.

 

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