Situated in the small town of Davidson, North Carolina, Davidson College has always had a strong relationship with its surrounding community.\u00a0 Athletic events are one way that the town of Davidson and the college have been brought together over the years.\u00a0 Whether by attending games or donating money, Davidson townspeople have gone out of their way to support Davidson athletics, and Davidson athletes have continuously given back to their community.<\/p>\n
Davidson College stresses the importance of engaging in community service in its mission statement, and the majority of Davidson students are involved in some form of service or civic engagement during their time at Davidson.\u00a0 The consistently overwhelming proportion of student athletes at Davidson make it safe to assume that Davidson student athletes did in fact participate in community service even though there is no written record of team involvement until the 2000s.\u00a0 Beginning in 2000, athletic teams\u2019 involvement in service began to increase on a national level, and Davidson quickly began to follow suit.<\/p>\n
By 2011, several teams participated in annual national service initiatives and are dedicated to serving on the local, national, and even international level.\u00a0 For articles on specific activities see:<\/p>\n
Men’s Basketball and Service<\/a><\/p>\n Women’s Athletics and Service<\/a><\/p>\n Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Student-Athlete Advisory Counci<\/a>l<\/p>\n Authors:\u00a0 Ben Allison, Coleman O\u2019Neill, and Courtney Tobe,<\/p>\n Cite as: Allison, Ben, O’Neill, Coleman and Tobe, Courtney. “Athletics and Community Service” Davidson Encyclopedia April 21, 2011 <http:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/uncategorized\/athletics-and-\u2026munity-service\/><\/p>\n Related Entries: Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Student-Athlete Advisory Council<\/a>, Men’s Basketball and Service<\/a>, Women’s Athletics and Service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Situated in the small town of Davidson, North Carolina, Davidson College has always had a strong relationship with its surrounding community.\u00a0 Athletic events are one way that the town of Davidson and the college have been brought together over the years.\u00a0 Whether by attending games or donating money, Davidson townspeople have gone out of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23138,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/23138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}