Community Service

The Bearcat football program will involve itself in various Community Service projects for many reasons:

• to give back to the local community;
• to gain publicity and support for our football program and University;
• to invoke a duty of citizenship in our student-athletes;
• to assist our student-athletes in networking with local businesses for future employment opportunities.

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The Football Team is involved with local elementary age school children with reading skills and teaching them the importance of an education.  The Team visits different schools each Friday morning to assist the teachers with anything that they need; reading, show and tell, playing, etc. 

This is a way for the Bearcats to give back to the community in which they live. This program will allow our student athletes to interact with school children throughout the school year.  Our student-athletes will be positive role models and hopefully leave the children with the desire to be a future collegiate athlete and Bearcat fans for life. 

For more information, contact Coach Wilkerson at zwilkerson@sbuniv.edu

New Student Move In Day
The Football Team helped move in the newcomers to SBU on August 16th.  See the pictures below

Rotary Club Park
Members of the SBU football team volunteered some of their free time over the Easter Holiday to give back to the community of Bolivar. Saturday morning at 7:30 am (and 21 degrees) members of the team went to the site of the Rotary John Playter Park to help clean and pick up the park with the Rotary club of Bolivar. The football team plans to come back to the park in full force a few more times this semester to ensure that the park is ready for the summer.

Other Community Service Opportunities
Other Community Service projects may present themselves and our program will try to take advantage of them (such as blood drives, highway clean up).  If you are interested in the Bearcat Football team helping with your service project, please e-mail a request to Coach Allen at kallen@sbuniv.edu.