{"id":14294,"date":"2008-04-27T10:01:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T14:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=14294"},"modified":"2018-09-28T12:49:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:49:01","slug":"bates-field-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/04\/27\/bates-field-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates Field Day full of play for area kids and Bates student-athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14295\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14295\" class=\"wp-image-14295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/10\/72FieldDay5404.jpg\" alt=\"Above: Jon Blanchard '08, of Tewksbury, Mass., a captain of the Bates men's rowing team, channels his inner Frankenstein during the first annual Bates Field Day. The afternoon of games led by Bates student-athletes attracted about 200 local children to campus.\" width=\"410\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/10\/72FieldDay5404.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/10\/72FieldDay5404-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above: Jon Blanchard &#8217;08, of Tewksbury, Mass., a captain of the Bates men&#8217;s rowing team, channels his inner Frankenstein during the first annual Bates Field Day. The afternoon of games led by Bates student-athletes attracted about 200 local children to campus.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yellow &#8220;Bates Field Day&#8221; T-shirts could be seen bouncing all over the Bates campus on Sunday, brightening a mostly overcast and slightly drizzly spring day. Brighter still were the smiles on the faces of some 200 local children and 100 Bates student-athletes, who clearly had a ball playing an array of games together for an afternoon.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The event was set up by the Bates Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), and the idea was beautifully simple: to invite anyone between grades 2 and 8 to come on campus and play kickball or run relay races with Bates student-athletes \u2014 the broader goal was to strengthen the ties between Bates and the community. Organizers hope to make Bates Field Day an annual event, and SAAC \u2014 in particular organizers Izzy Alexander &#8217;09 and Nate Kellogg &#8217;09, assisted by Robert Wesley-Munro &#8217;08 and Andrew Percy &#8217;08 \u2014 deserve a round of applause for what was, by all accounts, a resounding success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everywhere that I went, across the eight different venues that were set up, the kids were having a great time, and I think that their interaction with our athletes was priceless. Also, it seemed to me that our athletes had a pretty good time with the school kids as well,&#8221; said Director of Athletics Kevin McHugh, who advises SAAC. &#8220;This was a fantastic start to what could annually be a premier activity for Bates athletics and the youth of the Lewiston-Auburn community. 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