Valentines Day comes early
The chatter at the nearby table could be heard above the lunchtime din.
“I want my picture taken with you,” one woman said to another.
Robbie Collison smiled.
The wife of Thunder forward Nick Collison is one of the leaders of Home Court Support, a group consisting of spouses and significant others of players, coaches and front office personnel with the NBA franchise. The women do community service projects throughout the season.
Monday, Home Court Support went to the YWCA on N.W. 39th Street to do a day of pampering before Valentines Day. The women who were treated to make-up and haircuts are domestic abuse victims currently living in the YWCA’s shelter for abused women and their children.
“The faces when they were in there … ,” Robbie Collison said, pointing to the room where all the pampering took place, “it’s been amazing.”
Home Court Support sought support for the project. Loc Salon not only sent a stylist who cut and styled hair but also provided the women with products for their new style. Lancome provided two make-up artists and gift bags for all the women. Cheever’s even catered the lunch.
“People are really willing to help out,” Robbie Collison said. “When they hear it’s for a good cause, they get involved.”
The women also received a tube of lip gloss and a dozen roses.
Home Court Support did similar Valentines Day projects in Seattle before the franchise moved to Oklahoma City. The women involved in the group don’t just ask their husbands and boyfriends for funding — “That’s too easy,” Robbie Collison said — and instead, they raise funds through bake sales and other endeavors.
The group focuses its efforts on helping women and children, having already done a Thanksgiving event at Tinker Air Force Base and planning an event in March with the Ronald McDonald House. That number of events is actually down for Home Court Support, mainly because of the franchise’s relocation last summer. The group plans to do even more activities next year.
If the laughter and the chatter from about a dozen women is any indication, Monday’s day of pampering was a success.
“Everybody wants to feel pretty and taken care of,” Robbie Collison said.
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Kudos to the wives of the players for making a difference. My wife is a counselor at this shelter for the kids of these women, and from the little amount that she is able to tell me, it sounds like it’s definitely not a dream situation. Good to know that women like this, who have millionaire husbands, are choosing to make a positive difference.