NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Student-athletes from the Southern Connecticut State University athletic department traveled to the Clinton Avenue School in New Haven on Friday in the first session of an interactive academic program with first grade students at the school. Members of the baseball, women's lacrosse and women's track and field teams took part in the opening event, which featured small group sessions. The program will continue weekly throughout the academic year.

This program 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 more than 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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