GBC Cares | 10/30/2018 12:00:00 AM
Goldey-Beacom's baseball and softball teams took its turn in community service, participating in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation One Walk at Rockford Park in Wilmington, DE.
The team was among a throng of people which last year raised over $200,000 for the cause. GBC professor Dr. Nicole Evans and the Society for Human Resource Management, led by Student President Alecia Amadio, helped coordinate the proceedings.
This marks the second straight year baseball has participated in this event. The softball team in 2017 for a third straight year collected turkeys and assembled food baskets for the New Castle (DE) County EMS Division Paramedics.
Other activities from GBC Cares, the department's community service arm, also include the women's tennis team serving as ball people for the Delaware Wheelchair Tennis Championships. Also, many student-athletes have volunteered at The Summit in Hockessin brightening the days of our retired military veterans. An article on that appeared in the Delaware News Journal and that can be viewed by clicking here.
The soccer teams last year participated in Family Fitness Funday, organized by Tender Hearts. The student-athletes helped raise money to purchase custom-made bicycles for physically and developmentally impaired children. The Lightning's soccer teams also played a big part in helping assist with arts and crafts stations, touch football, soccer, fitness competitions, food trucks and many other activities.
Other activities from last year include student-athletes volunteering at the Hockessin Athletic Club for those with special needs, the cross country squads collecting shoes for Soles4Souls, the women's basketball team assisting kids at a local elementary school, the softball team helping with Toys for Tots and the men's golf team assisting with The First Tee of Delaware.
The department in January 2016 was one of 25 finalists for the NCAA Division II Award of Excellence following its October 30, 2015 Halloween 5K Costume Run and Fun Walk that raised money for the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition.
