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Two years ago, as seniors as Manchester Memorial H.S., Kelly and Jenna Freitas founded the Playing for a Purpose Field Hockey Jamboree in Manchester, N.H., which benefits the Dartmouth Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
 
They founded the Jamboree after finding that their mother, Christine, was suffering from a second bout of melanoma (she had beat it 12 years ago). This year's Jamboree is Wednesday, Aug. 28 at Manchester Memorial H.S.
 
The jamboree consists of six area teams play which play half-field games. Each of the six teams adopt a color, representing a different kind of cancer. Last year, ConVal H.S. wore pink for breast cancer; Hollis-Brookline H.S. wore grey for brain cancer; Memorial H.S. black for melanoma; Stevens H.S. white for lung; Littleton H.S. dark blue for lung; and White Mountains H.S. peach for uterine.
 
Admission is $10. There is a silent auction, raffles, etc., and all the proceeds go to the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. In two years, the Freitas twins have raised $10,000.
 
Kelly and Jenna won a community service award from the N.H. State Board of Education on Apr. 18.
 
The 2013 Playing for a Purpose Jamboree was Wednesday, Aug. 28.
 
The UMass Lowell field hockey team, entering its first season in NCAA Division I and the America East Conference, opens the season Monday against Big Ten power Northwestern University (2:00).