BATON ROUGE — Three LSU student-athletes spoke with members of the fifth grade 4-H Club at Copper Mill’s Elementary School on Friday afternoon as part of the Shaquille O’Neal CHAMPS/Life Skills program.
Kyle Beerbohm of the baseball team, along with Orlando Gunn and David Impastato of the national champion football team, spoke with the students about the importance of education and what it was like to be an LSU Tiger. After the speaking engagement, the athletes signed autographs and met with the children.
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.