Wilmington College QUAKERS
Wilmington College QUAKERS
Wilmington College QUAKERS
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2009 <strong>Wilmington</strong> <strong>College</strong> Football<br />
Community Service<br />
Members of the <strong>Wilmington</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
football team continued the program’s<br />
tradition of community service in 2008<br />
at a street fair hosted by the Clinton<br />
County Homeless Shelter.<br />
Players and coaches staffed game<br />
booths and provided some muscle<br />
power as the homeless shelter celebrated<br />
the opening of its new annex.<br />
“It was a beautiful event on a beautiful day. We were blessed<br />
to be a part of this activity,” <strong>Wilmington</strong> head coach Barry Wulf<br />
said. “Our players are committed to making a difference in their<br />
campus community and the greater <strong>Wilmington</strong> community.<br />
Playing football for <strong>Wilmington</strong> is about more than X’s and O’s.<br />
We are focused on the development of community leaders.”<br />
Other community service projects adopted by the WC football<br />
team include Cape May Retirement Community, <strong>Wilmington</strong> City<br />
Schools’ Right to Read Week and March of Dimes’ March For<br />
Babies.<br />
“These young men will be on campus for four years, but they<br />
will be impacting their communities for the rest of their lives,”<br />
Wulf said. “We are proud of the way they not only accept these<br />
opportunities, but more importantly, how they embrace them.”<br />
During the 2008 season, <strong>Wilmington</strong> also hosted Coach to Cure<br />
MD Day. The Quakers worked to defeat Muscular Dystrophy, in<br />
particular Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the leading genetic<br />
killer of boys and young men.<br />
“For me personally, having a child with special needs has opened<br />
my eyes to the need to embrace causes like this,” Wulf said.<br />
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“Having experienced what we have as a family and getting to<br />
understand the different types of special-needs children that are<br />
out there, like DMD children, we feel it’s important to do what we<br />
can whenever we have the opportunity.<br />
“This was one of those opportunities. We need to do more. We<br />
need to get the word out that there are people who are struggling<br />
that need our help. We need to raise the awareness level.”<br />
Linebacker Cody Hamilton lends a helping, dunking hand to<br />
Tyler Watson at the Clinton County Homeless Shelter’s streeet fair.<br />
<strong>Wilmington</strong> football players staffed the basketball attraction,<br />
cornhole boards and baked sale tables.<br />
The Quakers celebrate a victory for the community during a street fair hosted by the Clinton County Homeless Shelter.