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Community Pride Drake University has always enjoyed great community support and the athletic department annually gives back to the community. The Drake football team extends its sphere of activity beyond the football field every year. Players find time in their schedules to reach out to their community and to prepare for life after their careers at Drake. Last year members of the Drake football team volunteered with Meals from the Heartland, packaging food items to aid hunger relief around the world The Drake football team visited The Boys and Girls Club of Des Moines numerous times, while also conducting a “Youth Day” where members of the YMCA came to learn the fundamentals of football from Bulldog players. These student-athletes also have visited the Blank Children’s Hospital and participated in the Special Olympics Iowa Unified Sports Day in May of 2008 at Drake Stadium where more than 500 Special Olympians and 20 schools participated in all types of different athletic competitions. Drake was one of more than 200 schools across the nation that participated in the 12th annual Take A Kid to the Game which is a program focused on allowing youth to attend college football games. Members of the football team have conducted kids clinics and been involved in a group of Drake studentathletes who conducted The “Grow Bulldogs” Program at Phillips Traditional School in Des Moines. The program successfully integrated a curriculum, centered around the Drake football program, into the Des Moines public school’s curriculum. It covered the standards in the core subjects of math, social studies, science and reading, and health. It was a curriculum project that the Drake Athletic Department, in conjunction with the Drake School of Education, is building to promote Drake football to area youth and connect with the community through education.
Members of the Drake football team (left) volunteered with Meals from the Heartland, packaging food items to aid hunger relief around the world. Drake players (below) also are actively involved in conducting numerous youth clinics.
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