STATE COLLEGE -- Penn State held its annual Lift for Life event on Saturday at Holuba Hall, and while its main purpose was to raise money for the rare disease community via Uplifting Athletes, it was, as it always is, so much more than that.
A kids clinic was put on by the freshmen, which gave them a taste of the community service spirit that their head coach, James Franklin, preaches at every opportunity while giving the area's youth a chance to meet some new role models.
Then, of course, there was the upperclassmen derby, if you will, of weight lifting events ranging from a sled pull to bench press competitions and a tire flip before the annual tug-o-war battle between position groups closed things out.