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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 />

www2.wilmington.edu/athletics<br />

“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.

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