Holy Family Athletics Engages Local Community with Trunk-or-Treat and NGWSD Clinic

The Holy Family University Department of Athletics continues to embrace the opportunity to interact with its local community, demonstrated by recent initiatives including Trunk-or-Treat and a free National Girls and Women in Sports Day Clinic.

In October, local members of the community came out to Tiger Field for to celebrate Halloween, and HFU student-athletes greeted them in costumes, waiting to hand out candy from the trunks of their cars.

In February, the department hosted its second free National Girls and Women in Sports Day Clinic in the Campus Center. Registration for the event went live a month prior, and the limit of 80 participants was reached within two hours.

“We had a great turnout for our second year running the clinic,” said Senior Woman Administrator Jami Hughes. “All the participants had a lot of fun while learning about some of the sports we have here at Holy Family. It was a great way to honor the spirit of National Girls and Women in Sports Day.”

At the clinic, local girls aged 5-12 were joined by HFU student-athletes from the women’s basketball, cheerleading, lacrosse, soccer, softball, track & field and volleyball teams to learn more about several of the sports offered at the university.

Participants were broken into seven groups and spent 15 minutes at each station, one for each sport, which featured dialogue, training and drills.

Afterwards, they were given goodies bags that included souvenirs, snacks, tickets and schedules.