COMMUNITY SERVICE
• Ute student-athletes have logged nearly 1,500 hours of community service over the past year.
• Through the Ute Academy Leadership Program, 21 student-athletes participated in a nine-week leadership program, which ended in a 7-day service expedition in the village of Sumaco, Ecuador. • Numerous programs took part in the Bennion Center’s Legacy of Lowell event, a clothing drive for the LGBTQ Youth Resource Center, making blankets for a children’s hospital, supplying teddy bears and cards for children at a Valentine’s Day dinner, volunteering at elementary schools, and the department’s annual Truck-or-Treat event. • Women’s basketball helped raise money for various charities from three-pointers made at Pac-12 Conference home games.
• Women’s volleyball participated in this year’s Ute Tribe Storytelling Camp and joined the kids for an evening hike.
• Women’s gymnastics and swimming & diving student-athletes participated in the annual campus Imagine U Day event, taking part in activities with middle school kids from across the Salt Lake Valley. • Men’s lacrosse made donations to the Utah Food Bank, created hygiene kits for for the Rescue Mission of Salt Lake and volunteered at the Hope Lodge Bingo Night.
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