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UW athletes ‘practice’ 48 hours for AIDS in Africa

By: Erica Pelzek /The Daily Cardinal  - April 30, 2007




Camped out in a bright red tent Sunday at 3 p.m. until Tuesday at 3 p.m., a group from every single UW Athletics sport team took turns “practicing” on Library Mall—jogging, doing crunches or walking around collecting money—for a cause.

“48-Hour Practice,” a fundraising effort in which donors can simply give money or sponsor an entire team, aimed to raise money to install clean water wells in Africa to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS through drinking water.

UW-Madison junior Kayla Schultz and sophomore Trina Dusso, both members of the women’s track team, explained that each athletic team had a group of members with two one-hour shifts throughout the 48-Hour Practice.

Joy Schultheis, a coordinator for Athletes in Action—the Campus Crusade for Christ athletic organization partnering with the UW Athletics Department to put on the 48-Hour Practice—said the groups were outdoors even in the thunderstorms Sunday evening, inside a tent.

Dan Haseltine, the lead singer of Jars of Clay, a Christian rock band, co-founded the Blood:Water Mission, the non-profit organization devoted to clean blood and clean water efforts in Africa that the 48-Hour Practice funds will go toward.




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