FENNVILLE, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Feb. 16, 2024) – It will be another special evening in Morehead Gymnasium at Fennville High School on Saturday night.
That’s because it will be the 13th annual “Never Forgotten” basketball doubleheader for the Wes Leonard Heart Team between the host Blackhawks and their visiting arch-rivals, the Saugatuck Trailblazers. The team was formed shortly after the 16-year-0ld 11th grader when the two-sport star collapsed and died shortly after a Fennville basketball win over Bridgman on March 3rd, 2011. He suffered from an undiagnosed heart condition, and at the time, the school’s AED that could have saved him had been stored in an out-of-the-way maintenance closet, and its battery was dead at the time. Since then, the WLHT has raised funds through this basketball series, along with a golf outing, in order to donate hundreds of AED to schools and other entities.
Current Hope College assistant men’s basketball coach Ryan Klingler was Leonard’s hoops coach at the time of his death.
This coming August 30th, Wes Leonard would have turned 30 years old.
Coverage of the girls and boys games from Fennville begins around 5:15 PM on The Lakeshore’s 92 7 The Van.
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