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Community Relations
| Rider Athletics Helping Feed the Hungry During Thanksgiving | |
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As part of the MAAC Gives Back and The Rider Athletics Partners in a Caring Community Program, Rider Athletics and eight of the varsity teams assisted the Rider University's Center for Multicultural Affairs and Community Service by donating food during the 2006 annual drive. |
| November 18, 2006 - Women's Cross Country Volunteers at the Feed the Hungry Program in Trenton | |
 Jennifer Lee, Patrice Mahoney, Rebecca Riedel |
Hey, you want to go get something to eat? One of the most common phrases on any college campus and at Rider University. Yet far too often, we don’t stop and think about those who don’t have a place to get something to eat or the means to buy a hot meal on a cold winter night. |
| November 18, 2006 - Baseball Volunteers at the Feed the Hungry Program in Trenton | |
 Eric Woodrow, Garrett Rugg, Brian Herman |
Hey, you want to go get something to eat? One of the most common phrases on any college campus and at Rider University. Yet far too often, we don’t stop and think about those who don’t have a place to get something to eat or the means to buy a hot meal on a cold winter night. |
| November 14, 2006 - Rider Participates in National Young Readers Day | |
 Dan Sasso, Mike DiPietropolo & Jimmer Kennedy |
The Rider baseball team, as part of the MAAC Gives Back and the Rider Athletics Partners in a Caring Community program, participated in the National Young Readers Day by sending three student-athletes to read to children at the Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Trenton on Tuesday afternoon. |
| November 5, 2006 - Volleyball Conducts Girl Scout Clinic | |
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Going back to your youth and remembering when you played just for the fun of the game. As part of the Rider Athletics Partners in a Caring Community and the MAAC Gives Back program, the Bronc volleyball team hosted over 60 girl scouts in Alumni Gym for a clinic on Sunday, November 5. |
| October 29, 2006 - Women's Basketball / Softball (Race for the Cure) | |
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A race with no clock yet time is against you. A race where the rules change all the time. And fairness? There is nothing fair about having to run the race at all. On Sunday, October 29, the Rider women’s basketball and softball teams, as part of the MAAC Gives Back and the Rider Athletics Partners in a Caring Community program participated in the Susan G. Komen New Jersey Race for the Cure, held at Bristol-Myers Squibb on Route 206 South in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. |
| October 10, 2006 - Katzenbach Clinic | |
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As part of the Rider Athletics community outreach program and the MAAC Gives Back, the Rider volleyball team conducted its annual clinic with the Katzenbach School for the Deaf volleyball team on Tuesday. |
Broncs Give Back
- The Rider Athletics Department celebrated National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Sunday, January 29 with the theme "Remember, Celebrate, Build". The day's festivities began with a breakfast for Rider's female student-athletes in the atrium of the new Student Recreation Center on campus and featured a keynote address by Mika Ryan, chairwoman of the Mercer Sports Organizing Committee (MSOC). The Mercer Sports Organizing Committee is working in conjunction with Rider University and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference to plan the 2006 NCAA Women's Basketball First and Second Rounds being held at Trenton's Sovereign Bank Arena on March 19 & 21.
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- During the 2005 holiday season, Rider student-athletes collected toys and monetary donations at home athletic events for Mercer County’s Homeless Veterans and their families. Annually, Rider student-athletes collect over $2,000 worth of toys to be distributed to needy families with the hope that it will make their holiday season a little brighter. At the men's basketball game vs. Delaware on December 10, members of the Rider Student Athlete Advisory Commitee made a presentation of the toys collected this year to 1st Sgt. Rufino Mendez, Jr., Sgt. Kenneth Hampton, PFC. Argenis J. Vargas and Cpl. Joseph M. Thompson from Battery G, 3rd Battalion, 14th Marines. Rider Athletics is proud to be affiliated with the United State Marine Corps and the Toys for Tots program and thanks all who donated for their support of this generous cause.
- During the long winter break in January, members of the Rider University men’s and women’s basketball teams annually perform numerous community service activities.
This past year, the Women’s Basetball team visited the Millhill Child Development Center and participated in a reading program with the young children on several occasions.
In addition, both teams conducted a clinic for the 5th grade students at Parkway Elementary School in Ewing, NJ
- Another community outreach program took place on Jan. 10 when the Rider Athletics Department invited the 4-H Seeing Eye Puppies Club of Bucks County, PA to join them during their men’s basketball game vs. University of Pennsylvania. The program was designed as an effort to raise awareness about the importance of Seeing Eye dogs and their extensive training. About 15 puppies and 45 handlers were in attendance at the game, an event used by the handlers as one of many ways in which they train the puppies to become acclimated to crowds and various situations.
- New Jersey Adopt-A-Highway Program
Several of the Rider teams participate in the New Jersey Adopt-A-Highway Program. Pictured below are members of the Rider golf and swimming teams, helping to clean up our environment on the Rt.295/95 Rider exits 7A & 7B.
