NFL stars Travis and Jason Kelce help Laila Edwards' family attend her Olympic debut
It wasn’t easy for Laila Edwards’ parents, missing much of their daughter’s formative years developing into women’s hockey Olympian away from her roots in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Thanks to an outpouring of donations, including a major push from the hometown NFL brother tandem of Travis and Jason Kelce, they will be making the trip to join Edwards making her Olympic debut at the Milan Cortina Games next week.
A GoFundMe drive launched shortly after Edwards was named to the U.S. roster this month had generated more than $59,000 through Wednesday. The amount surpassed the goal of $50,000, and has the Edwardses making plans to bring up to 14 members of their immediate family, from maternal grandmother Ernestine Gray to Laila’s nephew Shiloh.
“Oh my goodness,” mother Charone Gray-Edwards said this week. “I was going to find words to describe the gratitude and appreciation. But I haven’t yet.”
https://apnews.com/article/laila-edwards-kelce-gofundme-6cff8a88de60a930b0d87befef28a31d
Lovely story, and go Badgers, or at least this one!