It doesn’t get much easier than riding a donkey up and down a basketball court. Many things turned out, including falling off a donkey on the basketball court, as Ryder was spotted in a Detroit high school gymnasium during a donkey basketball fundraiser on Wednesday night.
The fundraiser was for the benefit of the Beta Club, said Beta sponsor Josh Daigle, a high school math teacher and a master’s degree student.
“It’s been a while since we did that, but we did it a few years ago,” he said. “We’re trying to revive the tradition.”
Judging by the gym crowds and laughter, fundraising has a future in Detroit.
Three games were played during the event, with each team having four players on the court at a time. They rode nude on donkeys like Earthquake, Rigor his Mortis, Xlux, Elvis, Enforcer and others. Some donkeys were more cooperative than others. Some couples wanted to move back to the barn rather than the basketball court.
But such is the nature of the beast.
“They know the court well, but they definitely have a personality of their own,” says Daniel Stutzman, a donkey wrangler at the Dailyland Donkey Ball in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Stutzman, the referee, said his company has a countywide fundraiser from January through April.
Now this game is different from regular basketball. It’s not just because there’s a donkey in the court.
The ball is smaller and the dribble is gone.
Remember that dribbling is out of the question as staying on top of a donkey is hard enough.
Donkeys wore rubber shoes to protect their coats, and riders wore helmets to protect their heads.
The first match between the high school student team and the faculty team didn’t score much. The final grades were 10 faculty members and 6 students.
“It’s not very competitive,” says Daigle. “This is for the community to have fun and raise money for the Beta Club.”
High school sophomore Clara Carpenter was one of the student players she thought would be fun to play.
“Why not?” she said before getting into the vehicle. “I live on a ranch. I ride horses all the time.
After playing in the second eighth of the 16-minute game, Carpenter said with a big smile that she was right about Donkey’s stubborn nature.
“It was a lot harder than horseback riding,” she said. “They were very stubborn.”
Some younger children had the opportunity to ride donkeys between games.
Eight-year-old Kenley Boyd and eight-year-old Chesney Clough attended Detroit Elementary School and ran around the gym together.
“I liked the name Donkey Elvis,” said Chesney.
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