The women’s basketball program said thank you and farewell to four sophomores on Sunday. The Eagles competed against the Dolphins of Brunswick Community College in their last home game of the 2012-2013 season. Sophomores Meghan Glenn, Dionysia Cropper, Eboni Dean and Alison Beasley combined for 24 points, 9 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 assist in the Eagles 76-61 win over the Dolphins.

The Eagles are now 16-12 overall as they head into the region tournament this weekend. Regardless of the outcome the Eagles will end the season with a winning record and have the best finish in the program’s history!

On Friday, January 18th the Eagle community came together for a few hours to make a world of difference. Several faculty and staff members, athletes, and coaches participated in the Stop Hunger Now event that is hosted on Wake Tech’s main campus.

Stop Hunger now is an international hunger relief organization based in Raleigh with the mission of ending hunger worldwide. Wake Tech has the meal packaging event each year in which more than 10,000 nutrient-filled meals are packaged for school feeding programs and other programs assisting students and families all over the world.

Wake Tech Athletics pride themselves on giving back to the community. The Eagle women’s basketball team volunteered at the Wilmington Street Men’s Shelter prior to the holiday break. This is not the first time an athletic team worked at the shelter preparing meals and serving food. The cheerleading team also volunteered there several months ago. According to Wake Tech’s Service Opportunities Coordinator, several groups from the Eagle community have volunteered. Students, faculty, staff, and friends of Wake Technical Community College helped serve just over 2,500 meals at the men’s shelter last year. The Wilmington Street Men's Shelter provides services designed to lead participants to self-sufficiency by providing a safe environment for them to develop skills that will lead to employment and opportunities to obtain housing of their own.

The Wake Tech women’s volleyball team recently volunteered at the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. According to the Food Bank’s volunteer coordinator, the Eagles, along with dozens of other volunteers, sorted and packed an estimated 24,000 lbs of food which is enough to feed about 6,000 families of four.

The Food Bank was created in 1980, in response to increased homelessness and hunger in the area. “Today, the Food Bank provides more than 150,000 pounds of food every day to 800 nonprofit, community-based, emergency feeding programs (soup kitchens, food pantries, homeless shelters, and elderly nutrition programs), serving more than 500,000 individuals at risk of hunger in 34 central and eastern North Carolina counties” (http://www.foodbankcenc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_history).

The Wake Tech women’s volleyball team spent the morning of Saturday, November 12^th making the highway a little cleaner. Wake Tech Athletics adopted the highway in front of their main campus on 401 South. Since the highway was adopted, several Wake Tech athletic teams have participated in clean-up, including the Cheerleading Squad and the Women’s Basketball Team. GO EAGLES!

The Adopt-A-Highway Program (AAH) was established in 1988 by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) in response to growing public concern regarding litter along the state’s highways. The AAH Program is administered by the NCDOT Office of Beautification Programs, and is a joint effort between community volunteers and the NCDOT. Its purpose is to decrease the amount of litter on North Carolina’s roadsides and improve the beauty and quality of the environment.