BATON ROUGE — The LSU women’s soccer team is participating in Family Math Day at Polk Elementary on Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon as part of the Shaquille O’Neal CHAMPS/Life Skills program.
The member of the Tiger soccer team are visiting with the students and assisting in different types of math games at various stations. The student-athletes are taking shifts to be at the school each day.
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 honored one of LSU’s most memorable graduates, Shaquille O’Neal, by naming the program after him.