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Monmouth College Trick-or-Treat
Thursday, October 31, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
UPDATED! Monmouth College’s Trick-or-Treat on 7th Street event has been moved inside due to the expected weather on Oct. 31. It will be held from 7-8 p.m. on the main concourse of the Huff Athletic Center. Participants can enter and exit through the south doors of the Huff Center.
ORIGINAL POST: Area children have the chance to load up on candy this Halloween and also meet several dozen Fighting Scots, thanks to students in the Monmouth College Department of Athletics.
From 7-8 p.m. on Oct. 31, members of Monmouth’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) will host the group’s fourth annual Trick-or-Treat on 7th Street in front of the College’s Huff Athletic Center.
All area children and their family members are invited to attend the event. All candy that will be distributed will be pre-packaged, individually wrapped and nut-free.
“The event has been successful for the past couple of years and our student-athletes really enjoy getting to meet and interact with our community kids,” said Fighting Scots women’s lacrosse coach Elizabeth Demara, who helps advise SAAC.
Demara said Trick-or-Treat on 7th Street was created to help “connect our student-athletes with the local community.”
“We see a lot of local kids and families in the stands at our home contests, but our student-athletes don’t always have a chance to interact with them on game days,” she said. “Trick-Or-Treat on 7th Street is a way to bridge that gap between our local families and student-athletes by providing them with a fun way to interact.”
Demara said interactions between the College’s student-athletes and the trick-or-treaters “are often short, a brief conversation about their costume, their favorite candy, how many pieces of candy they’ve scored or simply exchanging high fives, but it’s a way to give back to some of our youngest fans.”
She said the Trick-Or-Treat on 7th Street has become increasingly popular with the community.
“The first year we hosted it, we actually ran out of candy in the first 20 minutes, so we sent one of the coaches to the store to get more candy for us,” she said. “Overall it’s been a very positive event, and our student-athletes look forward to it every year.”
SAAC representatives responsible for organizing this year’s event are swimmer Miranda Pasky ’21 of Paso Robles, Calif., water polo players Kyle Jones ’22 of Parkland, Fla., and Emily Mathews ’20 of Flossmoor, Ill., and track and field athlete Clay Schulenberg ’21 of Orion, Ill.
