 | | | Hannah Wells and Kate Walner Photo provided | | | | | | As part of their participation in the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy, local Lafayette resident Kate Walner and her friend Hannah Wells, both age 14, set out to collect books for underserved schools in the Mt. Diablo and Oakland unified school districts. Walner, a soccer player from Montclair Soccer Club, reached out to her friends from soccer clubs in our local community including California Magic and East Bay Eclipse. "Due to great support from California Magic and East Bay Eclipse soccer clubs, we collected nearly 4,000 books that were distributed among six different schools," said Walner. "This is great for students in these underfunded schools because they now have more and a better variety of reading material. It also creates awareness of the need for books in local schools among the soccer players from the clubs that participated."
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA