Featuring an all-star line-up of athletes and celebrities, the
game promotes a heathy lifestyle rooted in water and supports
international efforts to build wells across the globe for those who
lack access to clean drinking water
SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 22, 2024
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Three-time NBA Champion and Olympic Gold
Medalist JaVale McGee of the Sacramento Kings will host his
annual JUGLIFE Water For Life Charity Softball Game on Saturday, June 15, 2024 at Sutter Health Park in
Sacramento, California. As the
co-founder of JUGLIFE, McGee promotes water as the foundation of a
healthy lifestyle while also building wells around the world in
areas that lack access to clean water. Leveraging a team of
athletes, actors, educators, and other influential players, the
game features advocates who use their platform to promote an active
lifestyle with a focus on a primary ingredient: WATER.
"While most of us are privileged to have
overwhelming access to clean water, there is a global population
and communities in our own country that lack this fundamental human
right. The Water For Life game allows us to have fun and raise
resources to connect every person with water to thrive."
"Water plays a critical role in every person's success," said
McGee. "While most of us are privileged to have overwhelming access
to clean water, there is a global population and communities in our
own country that lack this fundamental human right. The Water For
Life game allows us to have fun and raise resources to connect
every person with water to thrive."
A native of Flint, Michigan,
McGee draws attention to the plight that families face when water
becomes a luxury instead of a basic principle of humanity.
Committed to raising awareness of the human need for water around
the world and the lifestyle that clean drinking water can provide,
the JUGLIFE team emphasizes the need to appreciate, conserve, and
promote water as key to a successful life. With McGee and
Kevin Huerter of the Sacramento
Kings as team captains, this battle of athleticism will showcase
skill and personality from some of the most captivating names in
entertainment. With Stephen Curry,
Draymond Green, Marshawn Lynch, Chris
Paul, Matt Barnes,
Odell Beckham, and more having
played in previous years, the game also includes activities for the
entire family in celebration of Father's Day weekend.
"Water is a building block of the planet and the foundation of
the body," said Kez Reed, JUGLIFE's Co-Founder. "The Water For Life
softball game allows like-minded individuals to merge their
collective platforms and share that water is critical to life and
the best choice we can make each day."
With more than 780 million people lacking access to clean and
safe water across the world, a water crisis results in millions of
water-related illnesses and deaths. Thanks to astronomical amounts
of sugar in most consumer products, promoting water as the drink of
choice reduces America's obesity rates and paves the way for
optimal health. Benefitting JUGLIFE's mission, proceeds help
fund interactive water education tours at public schools, fitness
pop-ups, international wells, and more.
JUGLIFE welcomes credential requests. For more information on
JUGLIFE and to purchase tickets, please visit
https://www.juglifewater.com.
Water For Life Celebrity Softball Game
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Red Carpet Arrivals 2:00 p.m. |
Gates Open 3:00 p.m. | First Pitch
4:00 p.m.
Sutter Health Park
400 Ballpark Drive
West Sacramento, CA 95691
ABOUT JAVALE MCGEE
JaVale McGee is a three-time NBA Champion (2017, 2018, 2020) who
currently plays for the Sacramento Kings with a tenure that
includes active roles at the Lakers, Warriors, Mavericks, 76ers,
Nuggets, and Wizards. With a family history rooted in athleticism,
JaVale is the son of Pamela
McGee--an All-American basketball player at USC who also played and coached in the WNBA, and
George Montgomery who played
collegiately at Illinois and was a
second-round pick of the Portland Trail Blazers in 1985. As the
co-founder of JUGLIFE, JaVale promotes a healthy and active
lifestyle by encouraging people to drink more water, and has helped
build water wells in Africa,
including a well at a school in Uganda, to provide access to clean water.
ABOUT JUGLIFE
Juglife began in 2015. Founders JaVale McGee and Kez Reed
challenged themselves and their community to drink a gallon of
water a day to encourage healthy habits. They soon began doing
research and learned that over 800 million people live without
access to safe drinking water. That is when they decided to form
Juglife Foundation. Our foundation is on a mission to provide
access to clean drinking water to under-resourced communities while
promoting the importance of drinking water and encouraging a
healthy lifestyle through physical activity. At Juglife, we host
Water Education Tours to teach our youth about the importance of
water while fundraising to build and maintain water wells in
underdeveloped areas of the world. We are advocates of physical
activity, so we've also begun our journey to build a sports complex
for the kids in Uganda. As a team,
we emphasize the need to appreciate, conserve and promote water to
thrive— drinking water is essential to life.
Media Contact
Farrah Parker, JUGLIFE, 1
3103501984, Events@juglifewater.com,
https://www.juglifewater.com
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