BATON ROUGE — In another example of LSU student-athletes making a positive impression on local youth, offensive lineman Peter Dyakowski spent time reading to students at Kenilworth Middle School on Tuesday.
Dyakowski, a two-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll from Vancouver, Canada, was the celebrity reader for Kenilworth’s “National Young Reader’s Day”. He read “Where the Wild Things Are” to a group of seventh grade students.
The school visits are sponsored by the Shaquille O’Neal CHAMPS/Life Skills program. The CHAMPS (Challenging Athletes Minds for Personal Success)/Life Skills Program was designed by the NCAA to help student-athletes realize higher academic achievement, increase likelihood of graduation and enter a chosen profession with a higher level of vision, knowledge, motivation, self-responsibility and greater overall success. In Spring 2003, the CHAMPS/ Life Skills Program at LSU honored one of the Tigers’ most memorable graduates, Shaquille O’Neal, by naming the program after him.