Ashlyn Sagan's Mitzvah Project

Help Ashlyn Support the Turnstone Flyers!

Why Did She Choose the Turnstone Flyers?
"In early 2019, after we played a soccer match, my coach, Ron Harkenrider, brought our team to Turnstone Center to watch a Wheelchair Power Soccer Tournament which included the Turnstone Flyers. He wanted us to see how they play soccer. Watching The Turnstone Flyers was incredible and afterwards, we got to meet one of the players from the team. Two months later, Turnstone hosted a national Wheelchair Power Soccer Tournament and I volunteered to help out at the tournament as a ball girl. I want to continue to volunteer and help support these wheelchair soccer playing athletes because they love soccer just as much as I do."


Why Should You Donate?
"I am asking you to consider donating to this very important cause because your donation will assist the Turnstone Flyers in being able to continue their operations and allow assistance in multiple areas of need such as equipment repairs, tournament registration and travel fees, and the other expense areas that come along with hosting power soccer tournaments at Turnstone. Power soccer is a very expensive sport because each player's power wheelchair takes a lot of money to maintain and repair. The Flyers need our support!"

If you would like to support Ashlyn's project of empowering the athletes on the Flyers team, you are able to donate on this website or you can mail in your donation to Turnstone at 3320 North Clinton Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46805. Please put Ashlyn's Mitzvah Project in the memo line!

Who Am I?
"My name is Ashlyn Sagan and I am an honors 6th grade student at Summit Middle School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I enjoy school and have a lot of friends. My activities include tennis, piano, choir, and math club, but my biggest and favorite activity of all is soccer."
What Does Soccer Mean To Me?
"I have been playing soccer since I was 2 years old. For the last few years, I have been playing soccer at the Fort Wayne Sport Club, a soccer organization that was founded by German immigrants in 1927. I love playing for them and have made many good friends through soccer. Soccer is very important to me because this is the only sport that truly spoke to me and made me feel like I belong."
Help Me Honor My Upcoming Bat Mitzvah on Saturday September 4, 2021
"In addition to the preparations I am doing for the day I am called up to the Torah and celebrate my entrance into Jewish adulthood, I was asked to perform a Mitzvah Project. Mitzvah means "good deed" and I wanted to focus on doing something important for a cause that means a great deal to me.  I have decided to continue to volunteer with the Turnstone Flyers organization in any way that I can and I also want to raise funds for the Turnstone Flyers in honor of my upcoming Bat Mitzvah.​"