Rhiannon Potkey - April 7, 2023 D1 Softball Sami Reynolds could sense the emotion in the room once she walked through the door. The University of Washington team was visiting Seattle Children’s Hospital for a trip the Huskies had wanted to make for years before the pandemic delayed their plans. Reynolds saw an 8-year-old boy lying in the hospital bed surrounded by machines. He seemed shy at first, but Reynolds did her best to break the ice. Mason Schirato had just been diagnosed with leukemia, a medical ordeal that quickly escalated from routine blood work to being rushed to the emergency room to an 11-day stay in the hospital. He couldn’t see his friends. He couldn’t go back to school. He couldn’t attend Boy Scout meetings or play his violin. Washington Teams with Children's Hospital Patients to Design Cleats
