Former Athlete Dwayne Hay Pushes Kids to Read

Reading is an important skill and comes in use for building a professional career. Even if a student is not academically driven but rather is physically motivated and dreams of becoming a star athlete, reading is still important. Dwayne Hay encourages kids to read by supporting the Reading…Give It A Shot Program.

Dwayne Hay wants all kids to read. It is an important skill even for athletes. Athletes are signed to contracts and that requires reading skills. Athletes are often sought as public speakers or partners which means they need to be knowledgeable and skilled in a number of fields. Short of having someone explain everything constantly, Dwayne Hay knows he learns about many things through reading.

Dwayne Hay finds the Reading…Give It A Shot program to be beneficial and rewarding for students. As an athlete he endorses it but because the program is partners with the Calgary Flames, he has previous experience with the program when he was a professional NHL athlete. Students are rewarded for their reading with Flames bookmarks for every one hundred hours of reading they complete. 

Dwayne Hay no longer appears to talk about the program with students but remains aware of the program and continues to support it as a community program. Dwayne Hay encourages reading on a personal level because he knows the benefits of reading are numerous. When children love to read, they gain additional knowledge outside of what they learn at school. What Dwayne Hay really liked about the program was that children could read anything. Dwayne Hay liked how children could read everything from books and magazines to newspapers or things on the internet. And while physical fitness and physical activity are important to the former Calgary Flames hockey player, Dwayne Hay pushes children to read and exercise their minds as well.