Hey Tiger fans! We are excited to be starting up another semester of SAAC...we have a lot to look forward to!

We are going to be involved in several upcoming community service projects. Student athletes will be going to visit the Veterans at the hospital on campus to show our support and appreciation for all they do for our country. We were involved with this event last year and decided we wanted to be involved again. As we did last semester, we will continue to visit the Children's hospital; going and talking to the kids and giving them various sports items (i.e. signed posters, hats, t-shirts, etc.) can really lift their spirits. We will begin a new project this semester thanks to Leslie Farmer, an athlete on the track team. She has begun "Athletes for Athletes". The goal is to bring Mizzou student-athletes and Mid-Missouri Special Olympics Athletes closer. Mizzou student-athletes will give a sports item they no longer use along with a letter expressing how this item was important to them in their athletic careers to a Special Olympics Athlete. We have been involved with Special Olympics before and would like to continue to strengthen our bond with their organization.

Along with community service projects, we have an upcoming Life Skills workshop: Career Madness. The purpose of this workshop is to help student-athletes prepare for the "real world" after they graduate. We will be able to get help with our resumes, explore post-graduate options such as graduate or professional schools, learn to positively express ourselves in an interview setting, and gain insight on how social networking can both help and hurt our job searching. This workshop targets student-athletes of all ages, whether the student-athlete is a senior, will be graduating in May, and would like to do a mock interview or a freshman who needs help drafting their first resume.

That's all for now. As the semester progresses, keep checking back for more SAAC updates! MIZ...