CCU Student Athletes Read To Kindergarten Classrooms

The CCU athletes took a trip to kindergarten classrooms to read to students for the United Way of Horry County's "Caring for Kindergartners".

Coastal Carolina student-athletes traded college class rooms for a much younger environment Wednesday morning.

The CCU athletes took a trip to kindergarten classrooms to read to students for the United Way of Horry County’s “Caring for Kindergartners”.

The event was launched in 2003 by former CCU Head Football Coach, David Bennett. It first began as a project of community service for the football team, but has since expanded over the past two decades.

A total of 86 athletes from all CCU varsity sports visited several kindergarten classrooms in Horry County schools and read the book “The Couch Potato” in efforts to encourage students to get up and be active.

The principal of Palmetto Bay Elementary school commented and expressed that it is good to have college students come into the classrooms and inspire the younger generation.