Leading up to the 2016 CoSIDA Convention (June 12-16, 2016), we highlight different aspects of the convention, whether it be specific programming, a featured speaker, social events, volunteer opportunities, or special convention promotions.
Today, we spotlight the Tuesday, June 14th CoSIDA-NACDA 5K Fun Run/Walk and our annual community service 
project with Keeper of the Game.
June 3 update: Our Community service project has maxed out at 55 volunteers and we are no longer taking volunteers for this event. Many thanks to those who have signed up to serve!
Registrations are open for the 5K fun run/walk.
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CoSIDA Volunteer 15 log - Log your community service throughout the year, submit it, and be recognized by CoSIDA for your community outreach!
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Register for the annual CoSIDA-NACDA 5K Fun Run/Walk (Tue., June 14; 6:30-7 am, Anatole Park)
5K Cost: $15 preregistration; $20 on-site; you also will receive a special race shirt for participating, and prizes again will be awarded.
The race shirt is a Tec Tee crew neck, 100% microfiber oXymesh with a moisture wicking to keep you dry and comfortable.
See race shirt design, right.
CoSIDA Partners with Keeper of The Game for Community Service Event in Dallas
JUNE 3 UPDATE: This community service project has maxed out at 55 volunteers and we are no longer taking volunteers for this event. Many thanks to those who have signed up to serve!
This year's CoSIDA Goodwill and Wellness Committee partners with the
Keeper of The Game Foundation for a baseball skills camp with The Miracle League of Frisco (Texas), followed by a Frisco RoughRiders game with the athletes on Tuesday, June 14. The skills camp will start at 9:00 AM with the Frisco RoughRiders game beginning at 11:00 AM.
This will be the first year the CoSIDA Goodwill and Wellness Committee has worked with Keeper of The Game for the annual community service
project.
Transportation to and from the skills camp and baseball game will be provided by CoSIDA.
If you are interested in signing up for this impactful community service project, please sign-up online
HERE and complete the form. This community service project is limited to approximately 55 participants.
This is the seventh community service project organized and coordinated by the Goodwill and Wellness Committee in the past eight years (San Antonio ’09, San Francisco ’10, St. Louis ’12, Orlando, ’13, ’14, ’15, Dallas ’16).
Keeper of The Game was founded in 2014 by current Oklahoma State University assistant baseball coach James Vilade, who has also had stops at Oral Roberts University, University of Dallas and University of Texas at Tyler. The mission of the nonprofit foundation is to provide kids and young adults with special needs and disabilities unique baseball experiences that foster the growth of those individuals and their love of baseball. Keeper of The Game promotes programs that allow these athletes to play, watch and experience baseball at a very personal level. This is all done with a focus on advancing servant leadership.
“Keeper of The Game encourages others to make a difference in the community around them through the sport we all love,” MLB All-Star Chris Davis said. “What Keeper of The Game does is necessary and very special.”
In addition to Davis, professional baseball players Elvis Andrus, Adrian Beltre, Andrew Faulkner, Joey Gallo, Craig Gentry, Odubel Herrera, Brock Holt, David Murphy and Josh Tomlin actively support Keeper of The Game.
CoSIDA volunteers will travel to Frisco on Tuesday morning to The Miracle League of Frisco to participate in a baseball skills camp with the children. Following the event, CoSIDA volunteers along with the children will attend a Frisco RoughRiders baseball game at Dr Pepper Ballpark. The Roughriders are the Double A affiliate of the Texas Rangers.
“Our foundation is extremely excited to be partnering with CoSIDA for its annual national convention in Dallas this summer,” Keeper of The Game Founder James Vilade said. “CoSIDA has such a big history of embracing community needs on a local and national level. This partnership will aid our mission to serve those with special needs and disabilities in and around the game of baseball across the country. We recognize the huge impact the many professionals of CoSIDA have in college sports and we are so thankful for their hard work and dedication to the needs of others.”
“We are thrilled to be partnering with the Keeper of The Game Foundation at the 2016 CoSIDA Convention in Dallas,” said Chris Mitchell, chair of the CoSIDA Goodwill and Wellness Committee, and Assistant Director of Athletics for Communications at Washington University in St. Louis. “Our volunteers are looking forward to a fun-filled day on the diamond, and the opportunity to share our love for the sport and to give back to the Dallas community.”
If you have any questions about the Goodwill and Wellness Committee or the community service project please contact Chris Mitchell at
mitchell@wustl.edu or call 314.935.5077.
For more information about Keeper of The Game, visit
keeperofthegame.org. The foundation can also be followed on
Facebook,
Twitter (@BaseballKeepers) and
Instagram (keeperofthegame).