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Student-Athletes participate in several events throughout the year. Several members from each team are involved in participating community projects. Also, our students gain career-building advice by attending seminars that are organized by the CHAMPS/Life Skills program.

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Pole Vaulters Visit Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital

Event Date: 2009-01-08
Location: Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital, Baton Rouge, LA
 

Pole vaulters Lauren Saucier, Rachel Laurent, Katelyn Rodrigue, and Mallory Thompson went to visit the children in the hospital before starting back with school and their track season for the spring semester.

Men's Basketball Visits Our Lade of the Lake Children's Hospital

Event Date: 2008-12-23
Location: Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital, Baton Rouge, LA
 

The men's basketball team visited kids in the hospital during the Christmas break. They went room to room and sang Christmas carols and handed out posters and basketballs to cheer up the kids.

Men and Women's Golf Visits Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital

Event Date: 2008-12-04
Location: Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital, Baton Rouge, LA
 

Members of the men and women's golf teams went around room to room and cheered up patients at the Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital before heading home for the holidays.

Men's Tennis Children's Hospital Visit

Event Date: 2008-12-02
Location: Our Lady of the Lake
 

Members of the men's tennis team went and visited the kids in the pediatric ward of Our Lady of the Lake Hospital.  They went room to room and cheered up the patients and visited with family members of the patients.

Men's Tennis Children's Hospital Visit

Event Date: 2008-12-02
Location: Our Lady of the Lake
 

Members of the Men's Tennis Team took time out of their busy schedules to go and visit with the kids in the pediatric ward of Our Lady of the Lake Hospital.  They went room to room to visit and cheer up the patients and their families.

Men's Tennis Visits Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital

Event Date: 2008-12-02
Location: Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital, Baton Rouge, LA
 

Members of the men's tennis team took time out to go and visit with the patients in the pediatric ward at Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital. They went room to room and visited with kids and their families and encouraged them.

Christmas with the Tigers

Event Date: 2008-12-01
Location: Bo Campbell Auditorium
 

Christmas with the Tigers is an annual CHAMPS/Life Skills event where each sports team adopts an underprivileged child for the holidays and raises money to purchase gifts for each of the children.  This year there were 22 kids adopted from the Catholic Charities group here in Baton Rouge.  On Monday, December 1st the families and children made a trip to LSU where each team got to meet their child and call them onto the stage to accept one present. 

Christmas with the Tigers

Event Date: 2008-12-01
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
 

All sports teams adopted an underprivileged child for Christmas through the Baton Rouge Catholic Charities Group. Each team was responsible for reaising money and providing their child with presents at the event. All 22 adopted children came on stage one at a time and unwrapped one present in front of the crowd and took home a bag to open on Christmas Day. The cheerleaders, tiger girls, the academic center for student-athletes, and the athletic administration also adopted a child.

Jeremiah Foster Visit

Event Date: 2008-11-24
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
 

Members of the baseball team visited LSU fan Jeremiah Foster at his home and offered words of encouragement after his recent surgery.

I'm a Good Kid Too! Youth Festival

Event Date: 2008-11-24
Location: YMCA, Baton Rouge, LA
 

Baseball player Micah Gibbs and track and field pole vaulter Lauren Saucier participated in the I'm a Good Kid Too! Youth Festival at a local YMCA. They spoke to 150 kids about staying drug free and working hard to achieve goals. The participants also walked around and talked to Lauren and Micah one-on-one and received LSU posters at the event.

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