TEMPE, Ariz. -- Prior to the Lumberjack Team Challenge on Jan. 16, the Arizona State track and field athletes kicked off their 2016 indoor season with volunteer service, organizing almost 30,000 pounds of donated food at the United Food Bank in Mesa, Ariz. on Saturday, Jan. 9.
This marks the second year the program has volunteered with the Feeding America organization. Last year 140 pallets of food were sorted through in just four hours.
For this round, a large semi-trailer tractor full of donated goods needed to be organized, repacked and reloaded for distribution. The student-athletes met that challenge, cleaning out the trailer in the four-hour volunteer period, providing 24,478 meals totaling up to 29,374 pounds of food.