MIAMI – The FIU Student-Athlete Leadership Council (SALC), led by softball standout Bailey Grossenbacher, once again helped lead an initiative this holiday season to benefit Operation Christmas Child, which provides gifts for children in need.
Panthers' athletic programs and student-athletes collected 1,339 gift boxes to distribute to children throughout the world during the 2024 holiday season.
Each box is tagged with a QR code that can be scanned to see where each gift box was sent. The total number of boxes is more than double what FIU Athletics provided last holiday season.
"This is something I have been doing since high school and I wanted to bring it to FIU," Grossenbacher said.