Raiders honour one of their own at Adam Herold Leadership Camp
After the Humboldt Broncos crash that tragically killed Adam Herold and 15 others on April 6, 2018, the Herold family received an outpour of support from those they knew, and some they didn’t.
Russ and Raelene Herold, along with their daughter Erin, decided to create the Adam Herold Hockey and Leadership Development Program, a travelling hockey camp that visits different parts of Saskatchewan to both honour Adam and to pay back to the hockey community that supported them.
“We had so many letters and messages from people after the accident, some of them from people we didn’t even know. It was just our way to give back,” Russ said. “Hockey is the one thing we know. Adam was a good leader and the world we live in could use more leaders. So we thought if we can help somewhat in leadership in these kids and make them better people in their community, better leaders, and help them out on the sports side, we’d do something good.”
The Foundation visited Naicam on Saturday but were forced to cancel Sunday because of the storm. They hope to make up the day in January when they’re planning on returning to Naicam. At the camp were two special guests, Prince Albert Raiders general manager Curtis Hunt and Raiders forward Matthew Culling. Hunt’s Raiders drafted Herold in the 2016 WHL Bantam Draft, forever linking Herold and the Raiders together.