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              HighPoints Magazine and Family Team Up for “The King of Comeback” Project

(Humble,Tx.) - Beginning February 1st, the HighPoints family of publications (Rob’s Roll the weekly internet sports page, HighPoints KidSports and HighPoints high school sports magazine) will team together with the Thomas Joseph Stanton II Trust Committee as they try to financially fortify the Stanton family and raise money for the long term care of Joseph as well as promoting helmet safety legislation.

Fund raising will occur when advertisers purchase ad-space from HighPoints publications. HighPoints founder/co-owner and Managing Editor Rob L Sprouse was ecstatic to receive the go-ahead from Danielle Stephens, a member on the Stanton Trust Committee.  The philanthropic group’s actions will mean that sixty percent of the funds accrued from the aforementioned HighPoints sales, will go to the Stanton trust.  It’s all part of “The King of Comeback” Project.  The campaign’s name comes from one of Joseph Stanton’s mom’s favorite nicknames for her son which was given to him by his Kingwood Park High School swim teammates after the 2009 UIL 4A State Championship where the State title rested on the winner of the final event, the 4X100 Freestyle Relay. Joseph was the anchor their and after the championship winning relay performance he gained his nickname “The King of Comeback”! Terri Stanton and others continue to be inspired by Joseph’s will to battle his condition.  That, coupled with the amazing amount of progress he has made on the road to recovery, continues to inspire her and others to dub him as the  “The King of Comeback”.

“I think this will do more than just allow our business to continue to grow because it will provide the Trust with the much needed funding for Joseph’s long term care and the much needed funding for helmet safety education as well as a healthy push for legislative efforts toward that end,” Sprouse said. He added, “As for businesses who contribute to the effort, they will reap the benefits from associating themselves with the Stanton’s determination and the ‘King of Comeback’ cause.  It’s a win-win situation for advertisers and the community.”

“Those that have suffered major head injury and trauma will also reap the benefits as the Stanton family continues to push for more awareness and greater hope for better treatment techniques and procedures,” the HighPoints owner/Senior Writer added.

The Stantons’ themselves are seeing the effects of newer and advanced treatments as Joseph is undergoing head injury therapy at the Texas Institute of Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR), a Memorial Hermann owned facility.  The Houston based center is also treating Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona U.S. Congresswoman who was recently shot during an attempted assassination in Tucson on January 8, 2011.  As a result of that, Giffords received head injuries at an in-district congressional town meeting that she was holding at a local grocery store there.  She is receiving state of the art care at TIRR, as she attempts to recuperate from the catastrophic act.

Joseph Stanton is being treated at TIRR for injuries suffered from a horrific skateboarding accident last summer. He of course, as most people know, was a UIL 4A State Champion 100 yard Swimming Freestyler, an All-American in multiple other events, and multiple relay title holder in the sport.  Stanton was preparing to enter his junior year at Kingwood Park High School in the Humble Independent School District.  He also was to have seen playing time on the Panther’s varsity football team.

Now, his “Team Joseph”, and the HighPoints team, will join forces to help as they unveil the “King of Comeback” Project.

“My wife had a brother tragically killed by head injury trauma.  We at HighPoints want to do all that we can possibly do,” Rob Sprouse said.

HighPoints Magazine covers all Humble ISD high schools, in addition to the Conroe ISD, Huffman ISD, New Caney ISD, and Aldine ISDs, and private schools in the Humble-Kingwood and Conroe-Woodlands area.  HighPoints KidSports provides scholastic, club, freelance amateur, and youth league/association coverage for children ages 5-14 who live in the Humble-Kingwood-West Lake Houston area.  HighPoints Rob’s Roll – Weekly Sports Updates an internet publication provides updates for all sports in the Humble/Kingwood, Huffman, New Caney and Conroe/Woodlands area. HighPoints’ publications are published ten times a year; HighPoints KidSports is published during most of the months that HighPoints is not published, and Rob’s Roll Weekly Sports Updates is published 47 times a year on Thursday, each of those weeks. The group can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . HighPoints family of publications is The High School Sports Experience for the North Houston Metro area.

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