A basketball team is often looking for the player with the “hot hand.” But for the Columbia International University women’s basketball team, it is their “Helping Hands,” that earned them cover story status in “The Pursuit” magazine published by the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA).

The women's basketball team traveled down to the Louisiana bayou in September with several other students and staff members to assist in disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Ida. The group was led by CIU's Disaster Relief and Emergency Management Program Director, Dr. Michelle Raven, and hosted by New Wine Christian Fellowship, a church organizing help to the citizens of LaPlace.

The Rams also experienced a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as ABC's Good Morning America visited the church’s distribution center to honor church member Sam Mamou, who volunteered countless hours helping his community even while his own home was damaged.

Read the article “Helping Hands: CIU Women’s Basketball” on page 16 of the March edition of “The Pursuit.”

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