NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Student-athletes from five teams at Southern Connecticut State University took part in the 10th annual Comcast Cares Day earlier today at the New Haven YMCA Youth Center. Members of the field hockey, men's swimming and diving, women's lacrosse, women's soccer and women's swimming and diving teams were alongside to lend support with a variety of projects at the facility.
Since the first Comcast Cares Day took place in 2001, more than 200,000 volunteers have devoted over 1 million hours of service to communities across the country. Comcast Cares Day is one way that Comcast helps to power dreams and demonstrate a year-round commitment to making a difference in the communities it serves. Comcast Cares Day started in 2001 with just over 6,000 volunteers. In each of the last two years, more than 60,000 volunteers have come out.
For more information on Comcast's volunteer and community investment initiatives, visit
www.comcast.com/inthecommunity
This program is just one example of many community outreach events that SCSU student-athletes will take part in during the 2010-11 academic year 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 more than 3,000 hours of their time to numerous outreach efforts, both on-campus and in Greater New Haven, during the 2010-11 academic year.
For more information on the Tim Greer Insurance Agency, call 203-397-4049 or visit
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