Monday, January 28th, 2008
On Sunday, April 6th, 2008 from 1pm to 5pm, The Friends’ Central Varsity Soccer Team will be hosting a soccer clinic for boys and girls in grades 2-5. The event will be held at the Friends’ Central School Upper Campus in the Shimada Atheltic Center. All of the proceeds from the clinic will go directly to Friends’ Central School’s Christopher Campbell ‘04 Fund for Soccer and Education. Click here for the application and for more information about the clinic.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
F&M project targets African youth, lost teammate
By MADELYN PENNINO, Staff
Intelligencer Journal
Published: Jan 24, 2008 12:50 AM EST
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA –
A coach’s vision and the untimely death of a young athlete have forever changed the course of the Franklin & Marshall College men’s soccer team.
In less than two months, the team will travel to South Africa to teach children with HIV how to play soccer. The trip will honor the memory of Chris Campbell, 21, a team member who died in August while jogging near his home in Narberth.
F&M has partnered with Grassroots Soccer, a nonprofit organization that provides African youth with the knowledge, skills and support to handle HIV.
F&M’s head soccer coach, Dan Wagner, said Campbell was ecstatic about the trip. “A little fire that was burning was the Africa project,” Wagner said. “Chris poured kerosene on it.”
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
The Franklin & Marshall Men’s Soccer Team (F&M) has begun a unique project in an effort to help effect change in the world. The team has partnered with Grassroot Soccer and targeted a specific poverty stricken, HIV/AIDS inflicted region to help. The Africa project starts with a trip to Khayelitsha Township in 2008 and will begin a long standing relationship between the program and this community.
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