Students were urged this week in an event in the quad to donate their shoes for a good cause - to be recycled into turf for playgrounds. The program was created in honor of Earth Day.

The event awarded students with prizes for donating the shoes, which they had to shoot through a basketball hoop and into the donation box. To make the event more of a challenge, assistant men’s basketball coach Jeff Arnold brought some of the basketball team players over to compete as well:

“The problem is, a number of them are better with sneakers than they are with basketballs.”

The shoes will be donated to Nike in a program called Nike Reuse-a-Shoe. They take old sneakers and grind them up and donate the materials to needy communities.

Source: KYW1060 Article
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