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Wofford Wins SoCon's Keeping Tabs on Kids Initiative

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Wofford College is the 2013-14 winner of the Southern Conference’s Keeping Tabs on Kids initiative, a contest among the Student-Athlete Advisory Committees of the league’s 11 schools to collect aluminum can tabs to donate to the Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Wofford’s SAAC chapter collected 131.78 pounds of tabs, or approximately 227,321 tabs. The Terriers nearly tripled the effort of runner-up Appalachian State, which collected 45.06 pounds (approximately 77,729 tabs).

Wofford collected the most tabs in the SoCon for the second straight year.

The mission of the Ronald McDonald House Charities is to create, find and support programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children.

Ronald McDonald Houses collect tabs instead of entire aluminum cans because they are more hygienic and easier to collect and store. When the RMHC chapters take the tabs to local recycling centers, the tabs are weighed to determine their value and the recycling centers send the local chapters checks for the total value of the recycled tabs.

The SoCon’s Keeping Tabs on Children initiative was created in an effort to unite the league’s SAAC chapters in a joint project.

All told, SoCon schools collected 252.68 pounds (approximately 435,875 tabs) in 2013-14. Full standings for the participating schools are below.

Southern Conference Keeping Tabs on Kids final tally
School    Pounds    Tabs
Wofford    131.78 lbs.    227,321 tabs
Appalachian State    45.06 lbs.    77,729 tabs
Samford    32.38 lbs.    55,856 tabs
Elon    26.95 lbs.    46,489 tabs
Georgia Southern    9.42 lbs.    16,250 tabs
UNCG    7.09 lbs.    12,230 tabs

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