Shelton High School girls basketball to host fundraiser for Type 1 Diabetes

SHELTON -The Shelton High School Girls Basketball team will host its annual “BLUE GAME” at Shelton High School Feb. 6 when the Gaelettes take on rival Guilford High School. 

The “BLUE GAME” is an event in which the Shelton High School Girls Basketball program helps raise awareness of Type 1 Diabetes, also known as Juvenile Diabetes.     

The event will be held at the Murray Gymnasium at Shelton High School, 120 Meadow St., starting with the Junior Varsity game at 5:15 p.m. and will culminate with the Varsity match-up at 7 p.m.

Many local businesses and families have donated items to be raffled off as part of this event with all proceeds being donated to Yale Pediatric Diabetes.   

Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin, a hormone that enables people to get energy from food. It comes on suddenly, and causes dependency on injected or pumped insulin for a person’s life.  
T1D carries the constant threat of devastating complications throughout an affected person’s lifetime. 
There is nothing you can do to prevent T1D, and - at present - there is nothing to cure it.  
It is a condition that must be monitored and treated for life.

The Shelton High School Girls Basketball program has had past and current players who are afflicted with Type 1 Diabetes and are constantly managing their lives with this affliction.  The team’s passion to help their teammates and others living with T1D is immeasurable.

Please consider attending this important event to help support the cause and Yale Pediatric Diabetes.  
Don’t forget wear your “BLUE” to show your support.


This is a press release from John Niski, Director of Athletics, Shelton Public Schools.