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Volleyball Visits Local Children's Ward

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Volleyball Visits Local Children's Ward

BATON ROUGE — Members of the LSU volleyball team visited the children’s ward at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center this past weekend as part of the Shaquille O’Neal CHAMPS/Life Skills program.

The team visited the children on Saturday following team practice to cheer them up while they are in the hospital. The players spoke with the children, signed autographs and passed out Tiger volleyball crayon handouts.

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.