By Brian Murphy
The Mount Saint Mary College Men's Tennis team painted a large map of the United States on an elementary school playground as a part of volunteer community service.
The Men's Tennis team was performing this community service due to an athletic department initiative entitled "Knights in the Community." Knights in the Community is a program in which the Mount Saint Mary athletic teams are encouraged to perform community service.
The tennis team drove to Walden Elementary School located in Walden, New York to paint a large scale replica of the United States on their school playground. The project took the entire afternoon to complete and was performed in high spirits.
"The community service was entertaining and it felt good to help the surrounding community" stated Statler Willand, a freshman on the men's tennis team.
"It was nice to see the children in the community come watch us paint" claimed Greg Jacob, another freshman on the men's team.
Justin Satkowski, the head coach of the men's tennis team and the college's sports information director, chose this particular school on the request of his mother, Sharon Satkowski, an elementary music teacher at Walden Elementary.
Nearly the entire team participated including students Michael McNicholas, Zachary Conlon, Nathanial Ahlberg, Bryan Puljol, Statler Willand, Greg Jacob, and the assistant coach Andrew Constant.
For more information on the Knights in the Community initiative and to see photos of the painting, paste the following link in your browser: http://www.msmcknights.com/news/2010/9/27/MTEN_0927104104.aspx?path=mten
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