WEBSTER GROVES – As it does every year, the Webster University Athletic Department teams, coaches and staff once again took part in the 24th-Annual Webster Works Worldwide, helping out various organizations, including schools, non-profit agencies and parks throughout the St. Louis area on Wednesday, October 3.
Webster Works Worldwide (WWW), a University-based community service project started in 1995, saw the Webster community come together to help those in need in the St. Louis area for the 24th straight year in 2018.
Many of the Athletic department teams worked as groups, tackling assignments that varied from helping the elderly make Halloween decorations to gardening, to cleaning up, organizing and one group was involved in prairie restoration.
Some of the community service projects performed by the Gorlok teams included:
Baseball: Blackburn Park, helped clear invasive plants, spread mulch and wood chips.
Men's Basketball: River Roads Lutheran School, the student-athletes read books to the pre-K and kindergarten students and helped the older groups with a STEM project.
Women's Basketball: Great Circle, which is a school for children with behavioral disabilities, the student-athletes cleaned, washed windows, cut vines, picked up trash, watered plants and organized school supplies.
Cross Country and Track & Field Teams: One group went to the Cardinal Ritter Senior Services Center and helped clean up/mulch the grounds of the campus, while the second group was involved with prairie restoration at the Green Center in University City.
Men's Golf: Butterfly House, which is part of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Men's Soccer: Mason Pointe Assisted Living Center, which is part of Lutheran Senior Services. The student-athletes helped to clean up the facility.
Softball: Easter Seals, the student-athletes helped stuff envelopes for their annual campaign.
Women's Tennis: Friends of Kids with Cancer, the student-athletes helped organize donations/toys and helped prepare for a Halloween event to be held at Grants Farm
Volleyball: Lutheran Senior Center and the student-athletes played balloon volleyball and table bowling with the residents.
