Matt’s Mission sets benefit golf tournament

The event is scheduled for March 31, and proceeds will buy more lifesaving AEDs to be placed in the community.

By Amy Quesinberry Price
| 6:26 p.m. January 17, 2025

Matt Cobb, left, and his father, Joe Cobb, with a representative from the Winter Garden Fire Rescue Department stand with one of the donated AED towers.

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The Heart Safe Golf Tournament is the biggest fundraiser every year for the nonprofit Matt’s Mission. The 2025 event is set for 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 31, at West Orange Country Club. For information, visit matthewsheart.org or email [email protected].

Matt’s Mission continues to donate AEDs to organizations in need.

Joe and Andrea Cobb, of Winter Garden, have made it their mission to put automated external defibrillators for public access at schools and areas where large crowds gather. After their son, Matt, went into sudden cardiac arrest at the age of 20 and survived, they created Matt’s Mission, which raises awareness of sudden cardiac arrest and raises funds to purchase and donate AEDs.

Matt's Mission donated an AED to the West Orange Pop Warner youth football program.

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Amy Quesinberry Price

Community Editor Amy Quesinberry Price was born at the old West Orange Memorial Hospital and raised in Winter Garden. Aside from earning her journalism degree from the University of Georgia, she hasn’t strayed too far from her hometown and her three-mile bubble. She grew up reading The Winter Garden Times and knew in the eighth grade she wanted to write for her community newspaper. She has been part of the writing and editing team since 1990.