NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Student-athletes from Southern Connecticut State University made their first visit of the fall semester to the Beecher School in New Haven on Tuesday. Student-athletes and staff members will work with fourth graders on a variety of subjects during the course of the academic year. Members of the volleyball, women's basketball and women's lacrosse teams took part in today's introductory session. This is the third straight year that the Athletic Department and the Beecher School have teamed up for this program.

This program, which will continue throughout the 2010-11 academic year, is just one example of many community outreach events that SCSU student-athletes will take part in as part of the Tim Greer Insurance Agency Community Service Cup.

Initiated in September, 2008, the 'Community Service Cup' program provides a competitive format that allows student-athletes to gain an enriched experience through engagement with the on-campus and local communities by supporting ventures of traditional citizens, campus community members and peer students and student-athletes. SCSU student-athletes volunteered nearly 3,000 hours of their time to numerous outreach efforts, both on-campus and in Greater New Haven, during the 2009-10 academic year.

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