MILWAUKEE – The holidays may be over, but one local school is enjoying a gift that keeps on giving, all thanks to a Positively Milwaukee story we told you about in November.

They got game…and more.

Students at Milwaukee’s St. Catherine School are now playing under new hoops and backboards.

Back in November, TODAY’S TMJ4’s Carole Meekins told you about a dilemma facing St. Catherine. The school had been donated more than $15,000 worth of equipment, but they didn’t have the money to get it up.

The backboards and hoops came from the West Suburban YMCA. Athletic Director Gary Thompson showed Carole Meekins how they were just sitting in a garage because the school could not afford the $6,000 installation fee.

“We just want to get them up so the kids can enjoy playing on them,” Thompson said.

After we aired our story, two wonderful men were moved enough to give.

Jim McCormick of Diversified Insurance Services of Waukesha and John McNally, an attorney of McNally Law Offices in Milwaukee donated the money. Both were honored during halftime.

TODAY’S TMJ4’s Carole Meekins: “What motivated you to give, to decide to help the school here?”

“You. John and I saw your piece at the same time and this is the type of activity we like to participate in. There was a need and this was the opportunity,” Jim McCormack said.

“We wanted to do something for children in Catholic grade schools in Milwaukee, and when we saw your piece on Channel 4 it was a perfect fit,” John McNally said.

Also spotlighted, the West Suburban branch of the YMCA that donated the equipment.

“We helped another local school transform their gym into something the kids can spend time in and be mentored in. It makes me feel so great about what we’re doing at the YMCA,” Christine Larson said.

TODAY’S TMJ4’s Carole Meekins was also touched to be singled out for doing the story. She was also impressed with what one all star alum told her about the basketball program.

“Grades come first and everyone had to get their grades up in order to play,” Kendall Evans said.

So it’s not just getting points on the court, but in the classroom and hopefully kids will see that sometimes the biggest victories come from giving back.

“It’s because we saw the piece on Channel 4 and the more you do of those, the more we may get more people to step forward.”

The two donors are not graduates of St. Catherine’s. By the way, Jim McCormack’s company, Diversified Insurance Company of Waukesha spent it’s 25th anniversary helping to restore, cleanup and beautify Sherman Park.