Tigers give preschool a fresh coat
Published 11:36 am Thursday, September 29, 2016
- HAMPDEN-SYDNEY ATHLETICS The Hampden-Sydney College baseball team poses around the sign for the Creative Learning Center, which recently received some fresh paint on its walls courtesy of the Tigers. Team members include, from left, sitting: Travis Stackow, Jacob Bartlett, Josh Duimstra; standing in front of and beside the sign, Hunter Marshall, Mitch Carmody, Matt Metheny, Cody Mann, Lane Winesett, Ryan Peevey, Cory Allgood, Brian Goodwyn, Blake Hartman, Hayden Basse, Dustin Wiles, Andrew Kasiski, Dalton Nash, Devin Daugherty, Shane Arceo, Josh Barber; behind the sign, Michael Flanagan, Matt Spagnolo, Sam Feliciano, Joey Sutphin and Cory Childress.
The Hampden-Sydney College (H-SC) baseball team recently completed a community service project at the Creative Learning Center, a preschool in Farmville. The Tigers worked together to paint numerous rooms at the school, including several classrooms.
“The whole H-SC baseball team came out in full force and worked tirelessly so kids in this community have a freshly-painted learning center to attend,” said Samantha Martin, the director of the Creative Learning Center. “They are a wonderful group of young men, and we can’t thank Jeff Kinne and the H-SC baseball team enough.”
Kinne, head coach of the Tigers, said he was extremely proud of his squad for helping a good cause in the Farmville community.
“This shows the character of our guys and especially our senior leadership,” he said. “Also, thanks to Samantha Martin for allowing us to be a small part of her great learning center.”
Helping motivate the Hampden-Sydney players to participate was a recognition of what they and the school’s baseball program receive from people in the area on a regular basis.
“It was great to work together as a team in order to help Creative Learning Center and give back to a community that has done so much to support the Tigers,” said senior outfielder Dustin Wiles.
The Tigers gave the community plenty to be excited about in 2016, producing a program-record 28 wins. They earned the No. 4 seed in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament, finishing as runners-up after nearly upsetting second-seeded Randolph-Macon College for the title.
