2011 LSC SAAC Community Service Month will be held in April. The Conference office will again make available a $200 subgrant that schools can apply for to help cover expenses.
2009-10 LSC Community Service:
Abilene Christian University
The ACU women’s basketball team “owns” a piece of highway south of town and picks up trash on a regular basis.
Several ACU teams raised $800 for medical expenses for the family of a three-year-old local girl with leukemia.
Angelo State University
ASU has hosts is annual Kickoff Carnival for Kids each September to start the new year. Elementary students are invited to San Angelo Stadium prior to a Rams football game to meet the ASU student-athletes.
Cameron University
As part of the Martin Luther King Day of Service initiative, student-athletes from volleyball painted fire hydrants on campus, while men’s basketball cleaned a storage building and baseball helped repair doors and a ceiling at the Lawton Food Bank.
University of Central Oklahoma
The UCO baseball team supports the Miracle League, which is for physically challenged youngsters in the Edmond area. The players help them run the bases and play defense, while cheering them on.
UCO student-athletes have assisted the Edmond Hope Center, a place for families to get school supplies, food and clothing, by distributing back packs, school supplies and organizing the facility.
Midwestern State University
The Midwestern State men’s basketball team hosted a group of local Special Olympics athletes for a clinic at D.L. Ligon Coliseum.
Northeastern State University
The Northeastern State men’s and women’s basketball teams spent the day with Tahlequah Boys & Girls Club at Greenwood Elementary School.
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Members of the Southeastern football team helped Durant residents clear debris from their homes just hours after severe weather ripped through town.
The Southeastern softball team spent an afternoon reorganizing Kayla’s Kloset, which receives donations of new or ‘gently-used’ clothing for foster children. The team put out the latest donations, switched seasonal clothing, then reorganized and cleaned the room.
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Southwestern Oklahoma’s Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) group is spearheading a unique fundraising effort among its athletic teams to raise money for the Make-A-Wish program. The group has been raising money through the popular Coin Wars game.
Tarleton State University
In a clothes drive for the tsunami victims, every sport on campus helped organize a clothes drive for the victims affected by the natural disaster in American Samoa.
A family in the Stephenville community recently had two daughters diagnosed with Alspers, a fatal condition. The Tarleton SAAC, in conjunction with the baseball team, helped raise money to help the family with their growing expenses.
Texas A&M University-Commerce
The Texas A&M-Commerce women’s basketball team volunteered for the Northeast Texas Children’s Museum Mother-Son Pirate Night.
Members of the A&M-Commerce men’s and women’s basketball team visited Commerce Elementary School to read and talk to the students about what it took to play college basketball, including setting goals, doing their homework and listening to their teachers.
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
The entire athletic department participated in Operation Paintbrush. They scraped, primed and painted the homes of two low-income elderly families in Kingsville, which may have never been painted without their assistance.
TAMUK student-athlete also helped create a park in an area where an old building had been demolished.
Texas Woman’s University
TWU student-athletes helped Hearts for Homes, a Christian-based outreach ministry established to provide no-cost home repairs to low-income elderly in Denton County. Typical work includes painting,caulking, roofing,plumbing repairs, siding repairs and yard clean-up.
West Texas A&M University
While in Topeka, Kan., for the 2009 Kanza Bowl, the West Texas A&M football team visited the 32nd annual Festival of Trees, the signature event for Sheltered Living, which supports people with disabilities. They also spent time at the Easter Seals Capper Foundation, whose mission is to enhance the independence of people with disabilities, primarily children.
Members of the WTAMU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee cleaned a two-mile section of US Highway 60, located west of Canyon, on Saturday, February 13. SAAC became a participant in the TxDOT litter control campaign in 1996 and has been cleaning the highway four times a year over the past 13 years.