April 6, 2006

Contact: Chris Kilcoyne (540) 387-9073

 

 

ODAC Student-Athletes Complete Conference-Wide Food Drive
Washington and Lee Collects 4,002 Items to Lead League 

 

Salem , Va – The Old Dominion Athletic Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (ODAC SAAC) recently completed its conference-wide community service project. The 26-member committee worked together, with individual campus SAACs, to collect canned goods for the third-annual ODAC Food Drive.

 

The drive, which concluded recently, was a huge success with the conference SAACs working to collect food items for local food pantries and shelters across the Commonwealth. The conference-wide group accumulated nearly 13,270 items that were distributed earlier this week.  This year’s total well surpassed the 9,215 items collected from a year ago.

 

Each campus' SAAC kept a tally to determine which conference school had the most successful food drive. Washington and Lee won the contest by collecting 4,002 total items.  Randolph-Macon Woman’s College finished second with 2,540 items donated followed by Guilford with 2,513 collected.

 

A list of the food pantries and organizations that benefited from the SAAC donations can be found below:

 

Bridgewater Area Food Bank
Church of the Brethren – Bridgewater
Patchwork Pantry – Harrisonburg
Store Soup Food Pantry, Faith In Action - Abingdon
Second Harvest Food Bank – Winston-Salem , N.C.
Farmville Area Community Emergency Services
Salem Food Pantry
Lynchburg Area Food Bank
Central Virginia Food Bank
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
Norfolk Area Food Bank
Rockbridge Area Food Bank
Miriam’s House