University of Bridgeport athletics teams helped ensure that Christmas was merry for children at the Cardinal Shehan Center in Bridgeport. The center serves 4,500 low-income young people in lower Fairfield County annually through various recreational, sports, social and educational programs.
The student-athletes collected about 100 games, trucks, puzzles, and stuffed animals at men”™s and women”™s home basketball games and delivered them to the center in time for its annual Christmas party.
“Our department as a whole thought it would be important to give back to the community; everyone pitched in,” said college Assistant Athletics Director Sara Richwine.
Terry O”™Connor, executive director of the Cardinal Shehan Center, said, “We”™re very grateful to UB, its students, and the coaches who got involved.”
The toy drive was just one community service activity by the student-athletes in the fourth quarter of the year. They tutored students at Roosevelt School in Bridgeport, hosted a Halloween party for area children, ran free after-school sports clinics at Wakeman Boys & Girls Club, and participated in other outreach campaigns.
