BATON ROUGE — The LSU track and field team visited the children’s ward at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center on Thursday as part of the Shaquille O’Neal CHAMPS/Life Skills program.
Representatives from the team made visits to the children in the pediatric ward of the hospital. The players spoke with the children and signed autographs while spending time with the sick children and their families.
The hospital 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.