Date Added: 22-04-2008

Saint Mary’s University Huskies is spearheading a drive to raise $3,800 for a soccer pitch in Tanzania.  Read the excerpt below.

TheChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada

By JOEL JACOBSON Bright Spot

Mon. Apr 21

GIVE BEFORE you take.

That was a motto the late Saint Mary’s University athletic director Larry Uteck stressed to his student athletes.

It carries on today, both at the south-end school and its neighbour, Dalhousie University.

Two stories have emerged about students giving back to their communities, in the area and far afield.

Keith MacMillan, a second-year defender on the Huskies soccer team, is spearheading a drive to raise $3,800 for a soccer pitch in Tanzania. He and members of the men’s and women’s soccer teams are contributing 100 per cent of the income from a Camp of Champions soccer camp April 26 and 27, an amount that would normally go to help pay for tuition, books, room and board next year.

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