CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Keep Pounding has become a team mantra for the Carolina Panthers never to give up, and that spirit is spreading throughout the Queen City to those that need it most.
Members of the Carolina Panthers organization came together Wednesday to donate a Keep Pounding drum to Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital.
The donation is in memory of 8-year-old Roswell Hynson, who earlier this year sadly passed away.
“It’s everything that Keep Pounding stands for, Roswell was that,” said her father Cory Hynson. “She fought as hard as she could until the very end. Very proud of her. She was one of one. She was a very special human. I miss her every day.”
The drum is a smaller replica of the one used on game day. Patients will now be able to pound the drum following the end of their treatment.
Keep Pounding became a mantra in honor of late Carolina Panthers player and coach Sam Mills.
He coined the phrase while he fought intestinal cancer. Mills passed away in 2005, leaving a lasting Keep Pounding legacy.