Ally Kerr, a senior golfer at UNC Asheville, was rolling putts on the apply inexperienced Monday at Forest Oaks Nation Membership in Greensboro, North Carolina, when the membership’s operations supervisor, Ryan Lee, walked up and handed her $200.
“He goes, ‘We all know you’ve been by it. We needed to offer you this that can assist you out with meals, gasoline, no matter you want,’” recalled Kerr, who together with the remainder of the Bulldogs girls’s golf crew has been displaced by Hurricane Helene, a Class 4 storm that made landfall in Florida earlier than hanging western North Carolina, together with Asheville, late final week, bringing historic flooding and inflicting catastrophic harm.
The gesture tugged at Kerr’s coronary heart strings.
“I began crying,” Kerr mentioned. “Individuals are simply so sort.”
Kerr doesn’t understand how lengthy she’ll be in Greensboro, or when she’ll see her crew once more. Tentatively, college students are allowed again on campus on Oct. 7, with lessons slated to renew two days later, however Kerr is skeptical. She has seen the storm’s destruction firsthand – the downed timber, the mangled energy strains, the Bulldogs’ apply facility fully submerged by a rising French Broad River.
The Bulldogs’ subsequent match begins Oct. 14 in Charleston, South Carolina.
“That can most likely be the subsequent time we’ll all be collectively,” Kerr mentioned.
