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All Teams – Several teams and coaches joined campus
leaders, administration, staff, faculty, and others for our annual “Move-In
Day” Saturday, August 20th. Incoming students and their parents
were greeted as their arrived and provided help in moving into designated
housing.
Men’s Cross Country – helped sponsor the
4th annual ‘Together We Can 5k and Youth Running Festival’
on September 10 at Belmont. This running festival is a benefit for “FEED
AMERICA FIRST”, a faith based hunger relief organization.
Women’s Cross Country/Track – participated in Hurricane Katrina
Relief Effort by collecting money and food items needed by the hurricane
victims.
Women’s Cross Country/Track – team spent time visiting
residents of the Belcourt Terrace Nursing Home. Team members walked the
halls, visited with residents sitting in their rooms, listened to their
stories about the past, and shared a musical experience from an outside
group.
Women’s Basketball – team ran the “Together
We CAN” running festival on September 10th for “Feed America
First”, a faith based hunger relief organization. This year’s
event is being used as a benefit for Hurricane Relief.
Women’s Basketball – conducted a clinic for
Nolensville Middle School and remained for time of interaction with the
youth.
Women’s Golf – volunteer individually for several
different service roles: youth minister in a local church, volunteer weekly
in the campus FAC, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, and a local church
nursery.
Men’s Soccer & Baseball – Several members of
these two teams were involved in Service Learning activities for a Community
Health Class. They worked with the homeless in the local Room In The Inn
program, volunteered at the Red Cross, spent time at Preston Taylor Ministries
(program for underprivileged children) reading, feeding and playing with
the children, and provided services at a local jail during Thanksgiving
Break.
Softball – participated in Dog Day 2005 on October
1 at Centennial Park. The event is sponsored annually by the Nashville
Humane Society and is a day honoring dogs. The team helped with various
events such as a dog show, competitions, and various vendors who sold
animal products.
Women’s Tennis – volunteered at the Professional
Tennis Tournament held at Vanderbilt University in November. They helped
with set up, tickets, and pass list.
Baseball – Barrett Owen spoke at a Baptist Church
in Paris, Tennessee on Sunday, January 29th, celebrating Baptist Men’s
Day in Tennessee Baptist churches.
Barrett spent the Bible Study hour with the young people prior to sharing
his testimony in the worship service.
Women’s Soccer – Jamie Bullock and Kassidy
Brown traveled to Cape Town, South Africa March 2-17 through Student Travel
AND Exposure to South Africa to work at an orphanage.
SAAC – Members of the Student Athlete Advisory
Committee collected team shirts to donate to Hand Held Products in New
York for a “MARCH MADNESS’ basket raffle with all proceeds
going to the United Way.
Volleyball – team participated in Belmont Family
Literacy Day where they took turns reading to the children brought to
campus.
Men’s Soccer – participated in a reading
program February 20-24 at Fall Hamilton Elementary School. Each day selected
readers were given a different theme for the reading time. The reading
program will be an on-going relationship between Fall Hamilton and Belmont
Men’s soccer team.
Men & Women’s Basketball – volunteered
their time on April 1 to enrich young children’s reading skills
in the event “Belmont’s Annual Family Literacy Day.”
The players either read to or were read to by the participating children
of the local Nashville Community. The players created a fun and exciting
atmosphere that made reading much more interesting. The event brought
approximately 200 children to the campus for reading.
Women’s Track – volunteered for the Country
Music Marathon at the medical triage stations.
Women’s Golf – volunteered for the Music
City Marathon, assisting in various triage groups.
Women’s Golf – assisted at the Bonnie Blackburn
Girl’s Golf Fest. The athletes worked with junior golfers and taught
the girls about the history of golf in Tennessee.
Volleyball – volunteered for the Country Music
Marathon Health and Fitness Expo. They registered and checked in runners
for the half marathon. Some team members also helped with medical triage
the day of the race.
Women’s Tennis – volunteered at the Country
Music Marathon and Half Marathon, serving as medical team triage helpers.
Cheerleaders – performed at the Adventure Science
Center on April 22 as part of their “Body Quest Challenge Day”.
They demonstrated stunts, pyramids, tosses, and tumbling in uniform while
promoting good health and physical fitness through cheerleading.
Men’s & Women’s Tennis – came to
the aid of one of their teammates during the devastating tornados that
destroyed her family’s home and business. Both teams spent a day
cleaning, picking up, and giving vital support to the family.
Cheerleaders – volunteered at the 2006 Country
Music Marathon on April 29th. They split into smaller groups and worked
5 medical triage stations that lined the course.
Men’s Soccer – volunteered for the annual
Country Music Marathon in April. The team worked with the medical triage
to assist participants.
2006 Sports Evangelism Mission Trip to Venezuela –
Ginna Beazley, golfer, and basketball players Jenny Conkle, Destri Bockey,
Brooke Sunday, Brittany Myers, Laura Cowley, Andy Wicke, Will Peeples,
Matthew Dotson, Keaton Belcher, Justin Hare, and Josh Goodman spent May
15-26 in three different cities in Venezuela doing ministry with Missionaries
Paul and Shelley Scott. The team used basketball as a platform for connecting
with youth and sharing their personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
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