St. Thomas Aquinas Student-Athletes participated in the Keep Rockland Beautiful Event on Saturday helping to clean-up the local community in Sparkill. One of the many events of the school year, it’s focus is to clean the Sparkill Creek Watershed. The Sparkill Creek Watershed is an important part of St. Thomas Aquinas College as it runs through our campus and along side Spartan Field. As student-athletes in the community, the Spartan athletes feel it’s their obligation to maintain the environmental cleanliness of the creek and the surrounding area.
The group of over fifty Spartan volunteers met at Christ Church Church with other members of the community where the work was divided. The teams were split into work parties that covered different areas along the Sparkill Creek. The area ranged from the pier in Piermont to Routes 303 and 340 (which border the STAC campus) and down to Northvale, NJ. Each team was provided with gloves, garbage pickers, and trash bags. They cleaned garbage and debris that had piled along the creek and the surrounding areas. This benefitted the local water supply as it helped to eliminate pollution that would runoff into the stream. The Spartan athletes covered many miles over a three-hour span. Following the event, everyone gathered again for a Potluck Lunch provide by the members of the Church. It was a great opportunity to get to know and interact with the members of the Sparkill Community.
Members of the men’s lacrosse team, men’s tennis team and men’s track and field team made up the work parties for the clean-up.
Provided by the St. Thomas Aquinas Sports Information Department.
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