Lacrosse Earns IWLCA Community Awareness Award
7/13/2022 2:00:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. – The Kent State women's lacrosse was named the Division I recipient of the 2022 Intercollegiate Women's' Lacrosse Coaches Association Community Awareness Team Award.Â
"For four years we have built this program on players who are inherently good people, resolute in getting good grades, giving back to their communities and caring for each other," said Head Coach Brianne Tierney. "I have always left our service efforts up to our team leaders and they have exceeded all expectations in finding projects that are rewarding, team-building and manageable, with all of the other time commitments they have as Division I athletes. The fact that Kent State Lacrosse led the IWLCA in hours is truly a commendable effort and left a mark on the foundation of our young program that I am so proud of. Â Everyone's efforts became a combined force, which is a lesson we all can use on and off the field."
The purpose of the Team Community Awareness Award is to recognize one team in each Division that has contributed significantly to their community during the previous academic year. Academics are not part of the award, and at least 50% of the team's roster must have participated in community service activities to be eligible for the award.
To give back to the Kent State campus community, the Golden Flashes made several toiletry donations to the CARES (Crisis, Advocacy, Resources, Education and Support) center on campus and logged generous hours greeting incoming students and helping them move into their dorms in a campus initiative called Movers and Groovers. In the KSU Kickoff: Kent Day of Service, the athletes joined several of their peers, faculty, and staff in completing service projects on campus and throughout the community.Â
Projects ranged from cleaning up the local Cuyahoga River, supporting the on-campus Flashes Fighting Hunger food pantry, and creating social justice-themed quilts to fundraising for a local community center. Along with several community service acts such as making birthday and holiday cards for the elderly and foster youth (6-18), the Golden Flashes also participated in a virtual fundraising awareness campaign called Million Mile designed to raise funds for childhood cancer research in September of 2021. They also collected goods and toys for their local Salvation Army throughout the season.Â
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