Wolverines Help Read for the Record

DOVER, Del. - Members of the Wesley College football program visited Fairview Elementary School as part of the Jumpstart Read for the Record reading program.  The players read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar to students in kindergarten thru fourth grade.

Seniors Greg Luke (Germantown, Md./Seneca Valley) and Tom Fox (Middletown, Del./Middletown), junior Joe Lightcap (Middletown, Del./Middletown), sophomores Barry Garrard (Piscataway, N.J./Piscataway), James Speake (Columbia, Md./Oakland Mills), Joe Cifelli (Princeton, N.J./Princeton) and Robert Ridgway (Drexel Hill, Pa./Upper Darby) and freshmen Jeremiah Milner (Camden, Del./Caesar Rodney), Coleman Peteet (Piscataway, N.J./Piscataway) and Matt Barile (Bel Air, Md./Fallston). Assistant Coaches Steve Azzanesi and P.J. DiGati.

Wesley's involvement in the program came about through its coaching staff. 

"It's great to have the guys go out and get involved with the local schools," Wesley Head Coach Mike Drass noted.  "Jen Plews teaches at Fairview Elementary and mentioned something to Shawn and it seemed like a great thing to get involved in."  

Jen's husband Shawn Plews is the Wolverines' running backs coach and special teams coordinator. 

Jumpstart's Read for the Record is a campaign designed to bring attention to the importance of early education.  By encouraging hundreds of thousands of children and adults to read the same book on the same day, Jumpstart aims to break a world record and to make early education a national priority.