Webster Athletics Team Up For Webster Works Worldwide

As it does every year, the Webster University Athletic Department teams, coaches, and staff once again took part in the annual Webster Works Worldwide, helping out various organizations, including schools, agencies, and parks, throughout the St. Louis area, on October 4. 

Webster Works Worldwide (WWW), a University-based community service project started in 1995, saw the Webster community come together to help those in need in the St. Louis area for the 23rd straight year.

Many of the Athletic department teams worked as groups, tackling assignments that varied from helping the elderly make Halloween decorations to gardening, to cleaning up a creek.  To see a short video chronicling the day for the department, view a short video by staff videographer Austin Ratanasitee HERE.

Some of the community service projects performed by the Gorlok teams included:

Baseball:  Forest Park, helping clear invasive plants in forest area, removing dead trees, general clean up.
Men's Basketball:  River Roads Lutheran School; the guys read books, did craft projects and helped make raised vegetable beds that the kids then put outside.
Women's Basketball:  Great Circle  helped move to new CIC building
Cross Country Teams:  Annie Malone Home, helped organize their donation room
Men's Golf:  The Little Bit Foundation: sorting books, putting stickers on them, packing them and clothing for school drives and fundraisers
Men's Soccer:  EarthDance Farm in Ferguson.  Cleaning up, picking peppers, hoeing.
Women's Soccer:  Working with children at the Grace Hill settlement 
Softball:  Alexian Brothers Hospital-Sherbrooke Village  Visited and played games with senior residents
Track & Field Teams Helping develop a planned new park, Forest River Trail in Sunset Hills.  Helping restore the area and put gravel down for a new walking path.
Volleyball:  Mary Ryder Home: Crafted and decorated w/residents for Halloween. See photo HERE.