Editor, GoDucks.com
The latest annual overseas service project for UO student-athletes took 19 Ducks to Dominican Republic, where they built a basketball court for a community of Haitian immigrants in June.
Accompanied by women’s tennis coach Alison Silverio and four other athletic department administrators, the group of students representing nine UO sports spent seven full days in Batey 7, an agricultural community in the southern region of Dominican Republic. The Ducks lived and worked in the community of about 1,500, coming away enriched by the experience of providing for a needy community, and newly appreciative of life back home.