Meet Our Play Yellow Ambassadors

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Meet Our Play Yellow Ambassadors

Published on October 20, 2021

They’re all about golf. But since joining the Play Yellow movement, they now play the game they love and raise the critical funds Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals need. Meet the Play Yellow Ambassadors.

Our ambassadors are professional golfers who understand that children’s hospital rely on donations to treat 10 million kids each year. They work hard to spread awareness of our cause while raising funds for their local CMN Hospital. Get to know each ambassador below!

John Senden

The connection to CMN Hospitals is personal for John Senden, a professional golfer on the PGA Tour. His 13-year-old son, Jacob, started to have debilitating headaches. John rushed him to to Children’s Medical Center in Texas, where doctors found a brain tumor. Jacob went through six months of chemotherapy treatments, which successfully stopped the tumor from growing. Learn more about John’s support of Play Yellow here.

Kira K. Dixon

Kira K. Dixon is a reporter for Golf Channel. She has been a golfer her whole life and has played in numerous Pro-Ams. But she also holds a distinct honor none of her fellow ambassadors can claim. In 2015, she was crowned Miss America, a role that included support of CMN Hospitals. Following her time as Miss America, Kira worked for CMN Hospitals before moving over to Golf Channel. Learn more about Kira here by following her on Instagram.

Bo Hoag

Bo Hoag is also a PGA Tour member with close ties to Jack Nicklaus, who along with his wife Barbara, helped start Play Yellow. Bo’s grandfather, Bob Hoag was a playing companion of Jack Nicklaus and helped Jack create Muirfield Village. Learn more about Bo here.

Peter Malnati

Peter Malati is the most recent addition to the Play Yellow ambassador team. As a member of the PGA Tour, Peter has visited his local member hospital, Children’s of Mississippi, many times. He is excited to represent the cause of children’s hospitals more broadly as an ambassador. Learn more about Peter here.

Bubba Watson

Bubba Watson is known for his signature pink driver. But shortly before the start of the 2021 Memorial Tournament, he donated a special version of his driver with a yellow shaft and pink head in honor of Play Yellow. Learn more about Bubba here.

Will McGirt

Another PGA Tour member, Will was the first Play Yellow ambassador. In fact, Jack and Barbara Nicklaus helped announce his ambassadorship at a PGA Tour event. Watch the video here.

Will Gordon

Will Gordon was an early Play Yellow ambassador. In June 2021, Will hosted a virtual tournament for Play Yellow and Turner’s Heroes in an effort to win the battle against pediatric cancer. He’s also been known to carry golf towels designed by hospital patients. Learn more here. 

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Rooster Teeth and Extra Life; How This Single Extra Life Team Raised $1.2 Million

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Published on December 1, 2017

On November 11-12, 2017 one single Extra Life team raised over $1.2 million for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Rooster Teeth, a youth media company that develops online creators and produces multi-platform entertainment experiences, has a massive global footprint of more than 35 million subscribers to its YouTube Network, 5 million unique monthly visitors to its RoosterTeeth.com hub, and 2 million registered community members.

Since 2010, Rooster Teeth has enlisted nearly 11,000 of their community members into the Extra Life community, and together, have raised an cumulative total of $3.5 million for 155 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Their 2017 Extra Life event provided the entertainment the media company is known for, by broadcasting its fundraising event and engaging in creative ways of raising funds, providing incentives and asking viewers to donate for the kids – reaching their highest total raised during a single event yet – $1.2 million.

Rooster Teeth recently pledged to raise an addition $3 million for Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin, TX to help pay for a new mental health wing for kids. The Rooster Teeth Healing Garden at the facility will provide a place for kids to play, relax and recharge.

Extra Life is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals fundraising program within the gaming community. Participants raise funds year-long and play games for 24 hours. To date, Extra Life has raised over $30 million for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals since 2008. Find out more at EXTRA-LIFE.ORG

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Angelica Hale Celebrates her 10th Birthday with My Miracle Birthday

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Angelica Hale Celebrates her 10th Birthday with My Miracle Birthday

Published on July 31, 2017

America’s Got Talent contestant, Angelica Hale is celebrating her 10th birthday with My Miracle Birthday, a CMN Hospitals fundraising program that supports healthcare treatments and more at local member hospitals.

In Angelica’s own words:

“As you all may be aware, I’m dedicating my life to help improve the lives of children through the support of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals organization and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the hospital that saved my life 5 years ago.

As a miracle child myself and an ECMO & Kidney Transplant survivor, I understand how important it is to support the children’s hospitals that make miracles and save the lives of children every day.

As I celebrate my 10th birthday tomorrow, my wish is for you all to join me in helping fulfill my mission by making a small donation. Together we can help make sick children better!”

Find out how you can help support Angelica’s birthday fundraiser here.

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CMN Hospitals at the Daytime Emmys

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Published on June 22, 2011

This past weekend, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals was the featured charity of Daytime Gives Back. As such, we were featuerd during the 38th Annual Daytime Emmys awards show on CBS. It was a great 3-minute segment, featuring a lot of Daytime talent visiting several of our children’s hospitals.

Behind the scenes we also manned a "giving suite" for the celebrities, where they could visit us to film a short PSA (coming soon!). We were visited by incredible talent, from Meredith Viera to Alex Trebek.

Our favorite visit was from Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin, who is a very famous hearing-impaired actress. She stopped by with famed celebrity hair stylist Ken Paves, and the two of them recorded a PSA together, which he spoke and she signed. It was a beautiful moment.

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Occasionally we are given a glimpse into the life of these people who seem so glamorous, and find out that they are so real. We were touched by how anxious Marlee was to give back and help kids, and thrilled to discover that she’s as funny and as genuine as you hope her to be.

We can’t wait to share all the PSAs with you! By the way, did you catch our segment on the Daytime Emmys? What’d you think?

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