Posted: Apr 20, 2010
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Tech's student-athletes were
treated to a picnic Tuesday during the Golden Eagle softball game
against Tennessee, as the Athletics Department celebrated its
annual Student-Athlete Appreciation Day.
Included in the day's events was a presentation of the "Stanley
Can" to the soccer team for its role in the annual Canned Food
Drive coordinated by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
In photo at right, soccer freshmen Chris Cambron (left) and
Alex Stevenson, along with women's basketball sophomore Tacarra
Hayes (right) prepare their chicken sandwiches, hamburgers and hot
dogs.
Members of the football team cheer on the Golden Eagle softball team from the left field stands |
Ashley Evans, Kathryn Forbes, Tiffany Palmer and Ashley Mayhew of the track & field team show off the Student-Athlete shirts |
The bleachers were filled with student-athletes, including members of the soccer, women's basketball and men's basketball teams |
Dr. Lance Jasitt (far left) and Director of Athletics Mark Wilson (background left) presented the "Stanley Can" to the Golden Eagle soccer team |
Mandy Thatcher, coordinator of compliance, and Buddy Pearson, managing editor of the Cookeville Herald-Citizen, flipped some 300 hamburgers and 200 hot dogs. |
Allison Price (left) and Sarah Smith smile for the camera |
Soccer coaches Becky Fletcher (left) and Ronda Brooks, and SWA Tammie McMillan pass out cookie and chips |
Misty Pearson, coordinator of corporate sales and marketing, gleefully served up 300 chicken sandwiches |
The Golden Eagle football team was on hand to support the Golden Eagle softball squad including, from left, Travis Adkins, Marcus Edwards and Lamar Moore. |
Former Golden Eagle wide receiver Drew Hixon,now a graduate assistant in the Athletics Department, did an award-winning job barbecuing the chicken for the student-athletes. |