Photo by Michael Mandzen
My kids thought it was amazing. It was like an adult meeting a professional athlete!Athletes for Literacy!
by Audra Swenson
October 05, 2007
Where would you expect to find a group of athletes between the ages of fourteen to eighteen after school? One might expect to find them at practice or a game. However, twelve coaches and over 185 athletes decided there was something more important then going straight to practice. Athletes, dressed in uniform, along with their coaches, walked through the doors of a local elementary school for a cause: promoting literacy. Athletes read to eagerly awaiting young people in grades pre-kindergarten to second for thirty minutes.
Due to the success of the program, forty band members will join the crusade for literacy during the week of October 12. As winter and spring sports come into play, athletes will once again march over to our local area schools to stress the importance of literacy to our young people.
To view pictures of our local athletes, click on the "Activities" page, then "Athletes for Literacy" and scroll to the bottom of the page, and click on the slide show link or click on the link below.
Look below to see some of the many wonderful comments the children made after our athletes assisted them as they read.
"I liked it because we got to read some of our favorite books."
"I had fun. It was the best? Thank you. It was the best ever."
"When we read with each other I felt awesome."
"I liked it so much. It rocked. I hope I have him (read to me) forever."
