#AskMeWhy

#AskMeWhy #CincyCrushCares

You might be asking "What's up with the #AskMeWhy hashtag?". Our club was started in 2013. The Tristate has a large number of clubs in the area and people often ask why parents chose to play for Cincy Crush. What differentiates us from other clubs in the area? While we can say its our great coaches and staff or our year-round training facility or how we strongly believe in getting to know your daughter and not another number in the system, the parents always have something else to say. Below are some of those feelings we thought we would share:

Our girls may never play volleyball past high school. So what is the point of club then? I can tell you the point of OUR club. Through our actions, we teach our daughters how to be part of a community. We teach them that it takes a village to accomplish great things. We teach them that the entire club is part of our family so we cheer on our other teams when we can. Our coaches teach them that sometimes your best game played doesn’t result in a win on the court, but it is a win. They learn respect and how to be humble. We are Crush. We are Family. We are BIGGER than volleyball. #AskMeWhy and I will always tell you why!

Another thing that distinguishes our club from other clubs is our commitment to helping out those in need. Each year our #CincyCrushCares initiative identifies a need in the community and our teams collectively work together to help out where we can.

2025

St. Vincent Depaul - Spiking For Spuds

The Cincy Crush families were asked to collect potatoes, so our Spiking for Spuds donation effort was born! St. Vincent DePaul is a wonderful local organization that serves our community with food needs. We collected 139 boxes of potatoes for families in need!

MATTHEW 25: MINISTRIES BACKPACKS

For our #CincyCrushCares donation drive for Matthew 25: Ministries, we donated 34 backpacks. They were delivered to a donation box. These were all collected during our Sand FUNdraiser.

2024

Clermont Senior Services

We start off our the first 2024 #CincyCrushCares campaign of the season with a hefty donation to Clermont Senior Services. Our families understood the assignment and helped us collect over 525 items!! Clermont Senior Services has been around for over 50 years and is dedicated to serving the older adults of Clermont county in a variety of ways and we are honored to have helped them with much needed items.

The below message is from one of the coordinators at the senior services:
“Thank you for your generous donation to Clermont Senior Services, Inc. It is through the support of community donors such as your organization , that helps seniors remain in their home. Majority of our seniors live on fixed incomes and it can be very difficult for them to purchase everyday items. Your generous donation will help hundreds of seniors. Thank you for caring about the seniors.”
Thanks again for helping us give back to the community!!

MATTHEW 25: MINISTRIES BACKPACKS

For our #CincyCrushCares donation drive for Matthew 25: Ministries, we donated 54 backpacks. They were delivered to a donation box. These were all collected during our Sand FUNdraiser.

2023

HOLIDAY SPIRIT - WALTER REID ARMY MEDICAL CENTER

We mailed out over 200 handmade Christmas cards to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The center distributed every card they receive among all the patients.

Ronald Mcdonald house of Cincinnati

We partnered with the Ronald McDonald House of Cincinnati to provide over a hundred needed items to support parents and families of hospitalized children.

MATTHEW 25: MINISTRIES BACKPACKS

BIG THANK YOU for everyone that donated gently used backpacks for Matthew25: Ministries. They have many uses for the backpacks and always look forward to our annual donation. We collected over 20 bags this year for our #CincyCrushCares.

2022

empower youth - Clermont County

We collected 29 gift cards to Target and Walmart. On top of that we collected 12 tubs of icing and 65 boxes of hot chocolate helping out again with the Christmas Wonderland event being run by Empower Youth. We love helping out those in need during the holiday season.

Dragonfly - Toy Drive

#CincyCrushCares partnered with Dragonfly for a toy drive. Dragonfly works with childhood cancers and to date they have served over 6,500 patients, siblings, parents and caregivers of childhood cancer in the Cincinnati area. Our toy drive yielded just under 100 new toys to share with this community. Thanks for all of the donations.

Karen Wellington Foundation - Pink Shirts

#CincyCrushCares raised over $1200 for Karen Wellington Foundation with 100% of the profits from the sale of the unique PINK Crush shirts!!!

MATTHEW 25: MINISTRIES BACKPACKS

SWEET CHEEKS - DIAPER DRIVE

Sweet Cheeks is the only non profit diaper bank in the Cincinnati area serving the underserved of the area. The club collected just under 1000 diapers during a diaper drive. Cincy Crush 16 Orange volunteered wrapping diapers for distribution as well. We wrapped 16,000 diapers which covers 320 infants!!!

2021

Christmas wonderland - Bethel, OH

The Cincy Crush family is absolutely amazing. In just under 5 days, we collected and donated just under 30 jars of gravy and over $600 for Christmas Wonderland in Bethel, Ohio. Our donation ended up taking care of ALL 6th, 7th, and 8th graders that benefit from this event. Thank you so much for helping on such short notice this holiday season!!

Matthew 25: Ministries Backpacks

Sixty-Seven! That’s right! That is how many backpacks our Crush family collected during the Sand Fundraiser. We partnered with Matthew 25 Ministries for this donation collection. This organization serves the underprivileged and disaster victims throughout the United States and around the world! Our donated bags will be used for back to school in underprivileged areas in the United States as well as for other purposes across the ocean. It doesn’t take a lot but it takes us all and the Crush family definitely showed up!

SOLEs4SOULS

#CincyCrushCares and the Crush family were at it again! We donated backpacks last month and this month our eyes were focused on FEET. Cincy Crush partnered with Sole4Souls to host a shoe drive. These shoes are used in underserved areas around the country and overseas. They take them in all shapes, sizes and condition … and even all smells! We were able to collect 217 pairs of shoes! Let that sink in. Check out this organization to learn about all the good stuff they do and thank you to our Cincy Crush family for again showing the community that sometimes Volleyball is more than Volleyball!

https://soles4souls.org/

2020

This 2020 season we partnered with Matthew 25: Ministries and donated over 50 backpacks for children in need both local and afar.

We also collected much needed items for the James Saul Homeless shelter.

We also had a number of teams give back directly to others in the community and abroad this year:

16 Orange spent one their few weekends off at Funky Sunshine helping make ‘yarn’ from recycled bags that get woven into mats that are passed out to the homeless.

It’s important to remember those who make it possible to enjoy these freedoms during these crazy times we are living in. One of the siblings of a player on one of our teams (Shelby Copenhaver, sister of Jordan Copenhaver) was deployed overseas in the thick of things. 16 Black decided to collect items ranging from socks, approved foods, playing cards, water bottles and much more to send over and show their support.

2019

During the 2019 season, our teams collected over 500 personal care items to aid those effected by the hurricane on the East Coast and the forest fire victims in California.