The Mount Sinai football annual picnic is always about more than just what it looks like on the surface.
Each year, the Mount Sinai Football program gets together for their annual team picnic. This is a tradition that celebrates family, community, and the bond between players. It's great for the players and something that many schools do to unite everyone, but Mount Sinai doesn't stop there.
After the picnic the players do what they have now done for a while. They start to give back. It's part of a long-standing tradition of giving back, the senior players collect leftover food and deliver it to Hope House Ministries in Port Jefferson. The team takes pride in knowing that the food is put to good use, supporting members of the local community who rely on Hope House’s services.
Hope House Ministries Hope provides compassionate, comprehensive, and competent care for the poor, the marginal, and the wounded among us. Specifically, to young people and families in crisis, pregnant women and mothers and babies in crisis and all other wounded people who are seen as abandoned and neglected.
Mount Sinai Football has made this donation a yearly commitment, and the players are proud to carry on the tradition of service. For the seniors, this act of giving back represents more than just football—it’s about leadership, gratitude, and community impact.
The players enjoy helping and take such pride in doing so. Offensive lineman Wesley Moody took to X to express his joy saying, "Dropped off some lunch at the Hope House Ministries today with the boys after our scrimmage. Pumped for the season to start."