New for the 2011-2012 seasons, the America East Daily Word, a collaboration between AmericaEast.com and AExtra, will recap the previous day's games and on goings on our nine campuses and provide links to previews, recaps, features and exclusive coverage.
While
many students spent time on the beach in some tropical locale or resting up on
the couch at home, several student-athletes at America East institutions ventured
overseas to help and serve those in need during their winter and spring breaks.
Binghamton
junior Mike Danaher, a catcher on the Bearcat baseball team, spent two weeks in
Kenya over his winter break. With eleven other members of the Wilson Rehab
Foundation, Danaher had a hand in providing educational training and support to
local rehabilitation centers in Kenya. The group also visited an orphanage
during their initial day in Africa which left a lasting impact.
“To
interact with them was an incredible experience,” Danaher said in a press
release from Binghamton athletics. “To be able to see the kids laughing and
playing was great. They are truly grateful for everything they receive and are
such an inspiration.”
Read
more about Danaher’s trip, here.
Several
weeks later, Varun Gopinath and Austin Davis, both sophomores on the Vermont
track and field team, spent a week in Ecuador thanks to an organization called
MEDLIFE. Gopinath and Davis teams with students from a variety of different
universities to establish and work free mobile clinics in different villages
around the Amazon rainforest.
Gopinath
and Davis spoke with UVM’s Alastair Ingram for a feature
story.
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