(CNN) When Monica Gutierrez sent actor Ashton Kutcher a text and asked him to help her son's cross-country team get new shoes, she wasn't really expecting a response. After all, he's a celebrity with millions of followers on social media.

But the star of "That '70s Show" not only replied, he sent brand-new shoes to the team last month, so the boys have them in time for their regional meet.

Gutierrez told CNN that this was her 13-year-old son Oswaldo "Ozzy" Briones' first year running on the IDEA Tres Lagos cross-country team. He's in the eighth grade at the school in McAllen, Texas.

She got the idea to contact Kutcher after one of his teammates was hurt because he was racing in his everyday school shoes — which weren't appropriate for running.

"If I could have bought them myself, I would have done it," Gutierrez said, but she said that she's a single mom with three kids and just couldn't afford it.

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