by David Thornton, Photographer
The Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) still plans to do great things in the other community regardless of COVID-19.
Some of the SAAC’s Community service events have been put on hold. Sadiaa Jones is Northwestern‘s assistant of athletics and student services along with being SAAC’s supervisor. she said, “It’s a safety precaution for our students and community to cut down on contact wear masks and social distance.” Said Sadiaa.
SAAC has meetings twice a month and these meetings are open to all athlete. Every meeting they discuss things around the community and what plans and ideas they have next.
The most common event they do is read and play bingo at the nursing home with the elderly patients. and due to Covid they can’t normally do that. The last SAAC meeting they decided to make and gave out goodie bags for the nursing home. “ they like to have candy coloring books crossword puzzles and we also put in Halloween gifts. ”said Sadiaa. Sadiaa plans to visit the nursing home soon to give up these goody bags.
“Due to Covid we had to be creative and safe with what we do for the community.” said Conner Norman freshman computer science major.
“Being a SAAC member is fun, being about to connect with the community in anyway is great.” Said Conner.
“I’m just a supervisor, SAAC is for them to have an identity, and have a voice. I asked for their opinion and it’s their ideas.” Said Sadiaa.
SAAC consist of all athletes to from every sport at Northwestern.
“It’s a great experience and practice for our SAAC members to communicate with non-athletic members in their community.“ Said Sadiaa.
Recently SAAC showed support for the local firefighters and EMS. One night they took Peter to them. Due to Covid that’s all they did when usually they stay longer and the SAAC member talk about being student athletes.
SAAC is still doing great things for the community while being safe and following COVID guidelines.
