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Congratulations!
 Caroline Masia entered into a competition
called "My Winning Moment" sponsored by the NFL. She had to
write an essay explaining the best moment that changed your life, and
she wrote about her Cochlear Implants. Well, she won! She was the grand
prize winner out of 800 contestants, and two NFL players came to her
school today to visit and speak with her whole class. On the day before
the Super Bowl she was transported by limousine to South Beach where she
participated in the Super Bowl party event and interviewed the players!
The event was covered on the website nflplayers.com as
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Saturday’s Sprint Phone-A-Friend @ NFL PLAYERS
Live! event was extra special for one particular NFL fan that lives in
the Miami area. Caroline Masia, 11, is a fifth-grade student at
Virginia Boone Highland Oaks Elementary School and was the grand prize
winner of NFL PLAYERS’ “Stay Cool in School” essay contest. She
was born deaf and wrote about getting her first implants in her ears for
the contest’s theme: “My Winning Moment.” As the grand prize
winner, Masia was given backstage access to the Sprint Phone-A-Friend
event to get autographs and take photos with players, as well as
interview several players for a story that will appear on NFLPLAYERS.COM.
“I got to meet so many cool players and they were
really fun to be around,” Masia said. “I was so happy I got to meet
and interview Leon Washington. He plays for one of my favorite teams,
the Jets, and he went to Florida State where my older sister might be
going to school. I also got a bunch of autographs with the players so it
was a lot of fun.”
Washington, who spent a while speaking with Masia
and her family, was impressed with her reporting skills.
“Caroline was very nice and sweet, and asked some
really good questions,” Washington said. “It’s great that she got
an opportunity to meet NFL players and to see that she can relate to
them. I was thrilled to know that I have her support and it was my
pleasure to have the chance to meet her.”
Tranquillity is very proud of Caroline and we look
forward to hearing all about it this summer. Caroline's sister
Ali Lakofsky is a current staff member at Tranquillity and her
father Bruce Masia went to Tranquillity for many years.
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