WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – The Lycoming College athletic department continued its strong history of community service with more than 400 student-athletes dedicating more than 1,700 hours to volunteer work in the Williamsport area and raised more than $2,000 for non-profits during the 2022-23 academic year.
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"To see the cumulative effect of the work that our student-athletes have done in the community throughout the course of the year is really awe-inspiring," Director of Athletics
Mike Clark '93 said. "I am humbled to work at a place like Lycoming, where our students our willing to go an extra mile to help the community."
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The men's basketball team participated in an October First Friday, helping the Lycoming Arts Festival and also spent time at the Christ Community Worship Center Food Bank in January and the volleyball team volunteered at the Central PA Food Bank in October. The women's basketball team held its annual Hoops for Hounds Basketball Tournament in December, with proceeds benefitting the Lycoming County SPCA.
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The cross country team worked with Highlands Nursing Home and its athletes also helped with several other local organizations: Wreaths Across America, Wildwood Cemetery, Special Olympics, Younglife, Good News Clubs and the Lycoming Audobon Society.
The football team hosted Be the Match Registry as part of the Get in the Game campaign, working a bone marrow testing drive in April. The Warriors have added more than 700 donors to the Be The Match Registry in the history of the event, while at least eight members from the registry have donated bone marrow or stem cells.
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The wrestling team helped with setup, moving books for the James V. Brown Library Book Sales in September and April.
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About 200 Warrior athletes spent the morning of April 22 working with Favors Forward's Spring Cleanup. With a large contingent of football, men's soccer, field hockey, women's basketball, volleyball, cross country and women's soccer athletes, the teams spent the day working with the Williamsport organization during its Day of Caring, doing various works around the Lycoming County area, which mostly included volunteering for senior citizens and those physically unable to do yard work.
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To cap off the year, on April 28, the soccer and football teams helped run the annual sports clinic for the fifth-grade class of Rommelt Middle School in South Williamsport, Pa., at the college's Shangraw Athletic Complex. SAAC also had several athletes help at a reading day at Cochran Elementary School.Â
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SAAC also raised more than $2,400 for Bryn Mawr Rehab in honor of Tim Chiarolanza '11 through a T-shirt fundraiser in February.
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