Sto-Rox receives $250,000 grant from NFL Foundation for turf

By: HSSN Staff
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | 11:54 PM

The grass is looking greener for Sto-Rox football.

The Steelers announced Tuesday that the school would receive a $250,000 matching grant through the NFL Foundation Grassroots Program to install artificial turf at the Vikings’ stadium in Stowe.

To receive a grant, a recipient must also contribute an equal amount to the project through local funding to be eligible.

The turf will be installed this summer.

It’s been an eventful couple of weeks for Sto-Rox football, which hired former Imani Christian assistant LaRoi Johnson as coach in late February to boost a program that went 11-29 over the past four seasons. Sto-Rox, which has 119 boys in grades 9-11, is the 18th-smallest school in the WPIAL with football.

Since the Grassroots Program started in 1998, the NFL Foundation has awarded nearly $46 million to support 336 projects nationwide. The grants are awarded to schools or non-profit organizations that serve low- to moderate-income areas within an NFL market.

Among the other grant recipients announced this week were Aurora (Colo.) Central High School and Conway Community Center in Saint Paul, Minn.

We’re so excited to present @StoRoxFB with the news that they will be receiving a Grassroots Grant from the @steelers, @NFLFoundation and @LISC_HQ. pic.twitter.com/6LckeRirzc

— Steelers Youth FB (@SteelersYouthFB) March 6, 2018

Chris Harlan is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Reach him at charlan@tribweb.com or via Twitter @CHarlan_Trib.

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