Sept. 29, 2008

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- The Marist football team was lauded in "Touchdown Illustrated" for its community service work. The Red Foxes were the recipients of a "game ball" in a story written by Stephanie Plotino about the team's work in the White Ribbon project this past spring.

On April 23, then-Marist senior football players Adalberto Ruiz and Dan Smith led a movement of over 100 students in a program that is designed to end domestic abuse against women. The White Ribbon Campaign is the largest effort in the world of men working to end violence against women and was founded after the massacre of 14 female college students in Montreal in 1989.

The circulation of "Touchdown Illustrated" is over 100,000, and it goes to over 350 colleges and universities on all levels across the country.