Posts

Showing posts from September, 2023

Let's P.L.A.Y. Tulane Medical School/Student-Athlete Community Outreach - 3 hours

Image
  09/26/23 - 3 hours Let's P.L.A.Y. is a partnership between Tulane Athletics and Tulane Medical School to go teach kids (5th-8th grade) about sports-related topics like: nutrition, teamwork and physical health at the Lawrence D. Crocker College Prep School.  Today, we played with the 5th and 6th grade volleyball team and 7th and 8th grade volleyball team. After doing a quick warmup of jogging and stretching, we moved to passing and serving practice before playing a quick scrimmage. For the last part of our time we cheered the 5th and 6th grade team while they played against an opposing school. We ended up winning the match thanks to our good serving.  After our volunteering was all wrapped up I talked to Jack (The club leader from the medical school) as well as some of the faculty of the school to brainstorm some bigger future projects like a Field Day or bussing the kids down for a Game Day at Tulane. I hope to be able to spend this year growing the program and potentially even c