KANSAS CITY, Mo — A bunch of school college students from Virginia are in Kansas Metropolis this week, volunteering their time at a neighborhood homeless shelter for moms and kids.
Sheffield Place has maintained its partnership with James Madison College for over 20 years. A bunch of scholars involves the shelter each spring break for experiential studying to complement their levels.
Lots of the college students on this yr’s group are finding out scientific psychology.
“We dwell in a fairly rural a part of Virginia, so the wants, regardless that there are comparable points, the wants are completely different and the basis causes are slightly completely different. So it’s positively been value it,” stated first-year graduate pupil Tara Pollnitz.
This yr, six college students have traveled lots of of miles from house to be taught from trade specialists, work with shoppers and roll up their sleeves across the shelter. They’ve opted-in on an alternate spring break the place college students journey worldwide and immerse themselves in serving to community-identified wants.
“We really feel with the ability to interact in service permits us to actually see what social points appear like on the bottom, on the floor stage,” stated pupil Christopher Johnson.
Reviews from 2022 present 97% of moms had dependancy points, a 3rd of them had felonies and 84% of households got here from home violence conditions.
“So final yr, all of our mothers had psychological well being prognosis, all of them lived beneath the poverty line and actually, 94% of our mothers, the revenue they reported was between 0 and 10 grand yearly,” stated CEO and President of Sheffield Place, Kelly Welch.
Working with the shoppers has modified how Pollnitz needs to strategy options in her discipline. Each Pollnitz and Johnson have been impressed by the shelter’s holistic strategy to therapeutic and self-sufficiency.
They hope their takeaways right here will help reshape how individuals take into consideration and strategy systemic points.
“You will need to simply get individuals off the streets, however I believe the void Sheffield Place is doing its half in filling is bridging the hole between being in that instant state of affairs and reaching self-sufficiency,” stated Pollnitz. “Everyone seems to be a person, even individuals who have confronted comparable issues of their lives, there’s nobody dimension suits all recipe that gonna do it for everybody.”
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It is a busy time for recruiting across college football. With no dead periods in the month of June, teams across the country are scheduling as many visits as possible. The Virginia Tech Hokies are busy, too. On Sunday, the Hokies landed a recruit — but not on the gridiron.
Mike Young and the men’s basketball program landed their first recruit for 2026 on Sunday when Sin’Cere Jones announced his commitment to Virginia Tech.
The 6-foot-7, 195-pound Jones plays at Churchland High School in Portsmouth and, per 247Sports, is the No. 13 overall player in Virginia for 2026. He held nine offers, some of which included Mississippi State, VCU, ODU and Radford.
Jones visited Blacksburg recently.
What are the Hokies getting in Jones? Right now, Jones looks like a traditional wing with his height and slender frame. Jones has a good outside shot. It’s tough to get a good read on his ability in the post because he’s much better than most of the players around him.
It is difficult to say how much we should expect to see Jones contribute as a freshman because, with the way the transfer portal works in college basketball, one year is a long time away. The Hokies do have multiple seniors on their roster this upcoming season.
Welcome home, Sin’Cere.
BASKETBALL RECRUITING
Churchland High’s Sincere Jones gave Virginia Tech its first men’s basketball commitment from the class of 2025, according to his Instagram.
The 6-foot-7, 195-pound forward visited Virginia Tech last week. He said on zagsblog.com that he has scholarship offers from Virginia Tech, Old Dominion, Robert Morris, Manhattan, Mississippi State and VCU.
Jones is ranked the No. 43 overall power forward nationally and No. 13 player in Virginia, according to 247Sports.
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Ten-year WNBA player Elizabeth Williams, who grew up in Virginia Beach, will undergo surgery for a torn meniscus she suffered June 6 while playing for the Chicago Sky against the Washington Mystics. She’ll be having surgery on her knee to repair it.
Williams was averaging 10 points, seven rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game through nine contests. She is in her second year with the Sky after starring for Princess Anne High and Duke, from where the Connecticut Sun chose her No. 4 overall in the 2015 WNBA draft. Williams played one year for the Sun, six for the Atlanta Dream and one for the Mystics before going to the Sky.
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