Michelle Perkins-Ball spent hours scouring the internet and making cold calls, looking for a needle in a haystack, before she found a lead on her next targeted guest speaker.
The Toronto high school teacher and girls basketball coach likes to find positive role models to speak to her students and is willing to make the extra effort to try and make it happen.
When the Toronto Raptors matched up against the Chicago Bulls in pre-season action at Scotiabank Arena on Sunday, it meant DeMar DeRozan returned to the city on Thanksgiving weekend. For the students of Saint Oscar Romero Catholic Secondary School in Toronto, it meant an opportunity of a lifetime.