JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The TaxSlayor Gator Bowl and Dreams Come True signed 12 dreams to the 2019 TaxSlayer Gator Bowl Dream Team Tuesday.
The dreamers are each local pediatric patients fighting life-threatening illnesses, ranging from 5 to 17 years old. The dreamers will serve as representatives and ambassadors for the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl through the Dream Team.
“Every time they invite me to something like this it always makes my face light up,” Joshua Riberio, a Dreamer, said. “To kind of forget that I even have leukemia is amazing, it’s absolutely amazing.”
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Throughout the season, they will meet team players and cheerleaders at TIAA Bank Field.
The Dream Team can scout the Florida State – Boise State game and travel to Gainesville for a University of Florida game.
“To be able to go to the game and get to watch because football games are always fun to go to, especially Florida games, they’ll always loud in Gainesville,” Dreamer Camden Lang said.
They have the option to attend monthly meetings with local corporate executives and distribute their rookie of the year player cards throughout Jacksonville.
In January, the Dream Team will be honored on-field during the 75th annual TaxSlayer Gator Bowl.
Dreams Come True is a locally based organization that grants the wish of a local pediatric patient battling a life-threatening illness. They currently have 444 dreamers.
Donations have helped more than 4,000 dreamers in the past 35 years.
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