KENT, Ohio- This year Kent State University student-athletes finished 24th nationally in the 2018 NCAA Team Works Helper Helper Community Service Competition.
NCAA Team Works, which coordinates community service efforts at NCAA championships, and Helper Helper, a volunteer management, and tracking platform, launched the community service competition to recognize student-athletes who give back to their communities. The competition ran from January through March with the winning schools' victories being decided based on the number of service hours completed and participation of student-athletes.
Student-athletes at Kent State earned 24th out of the 100 Division I institutions that competed in the competition.