WKU United Way Day of Caring 2018

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Giving back is always in season on The Hill - even in the middle of the summer. On Wednesday, July 25, WKU Athletics teamed up with US Bank and United Way for the eighth year for Day of Caring. Student-athletes and coaches from WKU Men's & Women's Basketball, WKU Cheer, WKU Football, WKU Volleyball, WKU Softball, WKU Baseball, WKU Track & Field as well as dozens of volunteers came together on the South Lawn to put together a special day for the hundreds of visitors.

Altogether, Hilltoppers with Heart spent more than 200 hours taking part in the United Way Day of Caring. Student-athletes, coaches and athletics staff hosted more than 300 new friends from numerous area summer camps on the South Lawn of the WKU campus. Across five hours of activities, volunteers from eight different Hilltopper varsity programs were stationed at different stations including volleyball, styrofoam airplanes, hot air balloons, football and cornhole boards.

Hilltoppers With Heart, sponsored by Passport Health Plan, was founded in 2011 and is designed to give WKU student-athletes, coaches and staff the unique opportunity to make an impact in the community by volunteering time and talent with numerous organizations including United Way, Boys and Girls Clubs, local schools and many more.

Passport Health Plan is a provider-sponsored, non-profit, community-based Medicaid health plan that has been contracted with Kentucky's Cabinet for Health and Family Services to administer Medicaid benefits since 1997. Medicaid members can choose Passport to be their health care provider, and as of June 27, 2016, there are nearly 17,000 Passport members living in Region 4, which includes Warren County and the campus of Western Kentucky University.

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