NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Student-athletes and coaches from the Southern Connecticut State University men's basketball team conducted a 'Hoops for Hunger' clinic for youngsters at Woodland Regional High School on Sunday afternoon. Participants were asked to bring a non-perishable food item to the clinic. Those items will now be distributed to the Connecticut Food Bank for those in need during the holiday season. The Owls worked on an array of fundamentals with the participants during the course of the session.

This program is just one example of many community outreach events that SCSU student-athletes will take part in during the 2012-13 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 nearly 3,000 hours of their time to numerous outreach efforts, both on-campus and in Greater New Haven, during the 2011-12 academic year.

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