Brandeis School students play to aid ill music director

Students in the middle school grades at The Brandeis School in Lawrence played in a swamp ball tournament and raised roughly $250 to help Bryan Singh, who served as the music director for the school’s annual production for the past five years. Singh is battling cancer.

Student Council officers Jordan Carucci and Tal Kerity suggested the tournament, and the council, along with social studies teacher  Zelda Kastin, who organized the event.

Swamp ball is a form of dodge ball, where one team each gets one half of the playing field as its territory.  A gym mat is placed on each side at the end of the playing area, the gym mats are the swamps. This game is played like most dodge ball games except when you get hit with the ball the player must go to the other teams’ territory and stay on its swamp.