Athletics Highlighted Through Community Work at The Summit

GBC Cares | 4/17/2018 12:00:00 AM

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(The News Journal article)

In its latest round of community service, Goldey-Beacom College's Department of Athletics was highlighted in The News Journal regarding its multiple trips to The Summit in Hockessin, DE.

The article can be read by clicking here.

Led by Goldey-Beacom Assistant Director of Athletics and Compliance Specialist Jeremy Benoit, he and many student-athletes made their way to the center and brightened the day at the home for our veterans. Roughly 25 students from three organizations within the Lightning family sat and listened to 40 veterans share their stories about life in the military and the fight they endured for our freedom.

A video is in the works highlighting the endeavor and a book compiling multiple stories and memories is being prepared for release in November, coinciding with Veterans Day. Lightning Studio, a student organization led by English major and former Baseball student-athlete Geoff Stone, has played a big role in the creative direction of the project.

The Department of Athletics taking the lead in this is part of its community-service arm, GBC Cares. Through the hard work of Benoit and our student-athletes, such undertakings also have included work at the Hockessin Athletic Club, Highlands Elementary School, Ministry of Caring through the New Castle County EMS Division Paramedics and such organizations as Soles4Souls, Toys for Tots, the MORE Foundation Group, Tender Hearts and the Juvenile Diabetes Run.

The signature moment for GBC Cares took place in 2016, when it was named a finalist for the NCAA Division II Award of Excellence. This came after the department's extensive work with Bras for the Cause, during which is raised money, awareness and collected bras during breast cancer awareness month. The Athletic Department ultimately plans to submit the veteran project to the NCAA for consideration for the 2018 NCAA Division II Award of Excellence.

"The GBC Cares unit has really flourished this year under the leadership of Lorenzo Gama and Gustavo Santos, two of our Men's Soccer student-athletes who have been interns in my office this year," said Benoit. "They've been able to provide a more organized and thorough approach to the community service efforts of our department."

Gama and Santos are seniors from the Men's Soccer team who won the 2017 CACC championship and recorded the first head-to-head NCAA Tournament win by a men's team in GBC history.

The Summit is a retirement community which opened in 2015 and is located just minutes from the Pike Creek campus.

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