Seekonk Football Player Joining Elite Company for Shriners Game

Seekonk's own Matt Lockwood will get a chance to play football with the best of the best when he takes part in the Shriners Football Classic next week.

Lockwood is only the fourth player since the inception of the Shriners Bowl in 1979 to be selected from Seekonk High School. The others are Jason Swepson (1988), Chris Hanoian (2008) and Chris Howard (2008).

One hundred high school seniors in Massachusetts are chosen every year to play in this elite game. It takes place this year on Friday, June 17, at 7 pm at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro. Tickets are $15 – $10 goes to Shriners Hospital and $5 goes to the player's athletic department (Seekonk High School).

For ticket/ad/booster information, call Sue Lockwood at 508-761-9019.

Shriners Hospital for Children is an international health care system with 22 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada which provide pediatric specialty care to children in the U.S. and around the world with orthopedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries and cleft lip and palate deformities at no cost to the patients or their families. 

The motto for the game is "Strong Legs Run ... That weak legs may walk ... and burned children may play again."