Softball | October 8, 2015

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PHILADELPHIA - La Salle Athletics has a long history of serving the community through Project Teamwork, the youth outreach and service initative created in 1998. Project Teamwork, largely through a partnership with Big Brother Big Sisters and Logan Elementary School, has been recognized nationally the past 14 years for serving the community and those in need. 

To begin Inauguration Week for La Salle President Dr. Colleen Hanycz, Explorer student-athletes spent Saturday, October 3 demonstrating that spirit of service. 

Service is an integral part of the mission at La Salle, a spirit that has been alive in Philadelphia for 150 years since the school's founding by the Christian Brothers in 1863. 

Last year alone, La Salle student-athletes spent nearly thousands of hours participating in community service. A large majority of student-athletes participate in some kind of community service during the academic year.  

For the Day of Service, the La Salle men's basketball team served meals at the Sunday Breakfast Mission while the women's basketball team performed service at the Whosoever Gospel Mission. Cross Country and Track and Field led a youth sports clinic at nearby Belfield Rec Center. The golf and softball teams cleaned up at DePaul Catholic School, while the men's tennis team cleaned up Awbury Arboretum.

The women's soccer team removed debris at McMahon/Locust Park near campus and the women's lacrosse team made sandwiches for those in need. The rowing team wrote letters to the military, while field hockey served meals at Our Brothers House. Baseball and swimming participated in a trash-bash on and aroudn campus. 

Volunteers from the La Salle community served at more than 25 sites in Philadelphia and numerous locations across the United States.