Daily Word: Student-Athletes Serve Others Over Break

Daily Word: Student-Athletes Serve Others Over Break

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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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