ODAC Student-Athletes Complete League-Wide Food Drive

R-M Woman's College Leads the Way with Over 4,000 Items Donated

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 15,845 items that were distributed earlier this week.  This year's total well surpassed the 13,100 items from a year ago.

Each campus SAAC kept a tally to determine which conference school had the most successful food drive. Randolph-Macon Woman's College easily won the contest by collecting 4,005 total items.  Washington and Lee finished in second with 3,019 items donated followed by Eastern Mennonite University with 2125 items.

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

Bridgewater Area Food Bank
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