For the second straight year, Wisconsin student-athletes will participate in the ""Red and White Hunger Fight,"" hoping to raise food and monetary donations for needy families.
The drive began last Thursday and will run until Oct. 29. Donors can drop off canned food in green barrels, which have been placed around campus and surrounding neighborhoods or give monetary donations that will go to the Community Action Coalition.
This is the Hunger Fight's second year, after the drive collected over $2,000 and four tons of food in 2008. This year, organizer and senior women's soccer goaltender Michele Dalton said the goal is to raise at least $1,250.
Dalton said Monday the event helps student-athletes be more active in Madison.
""This is an opportunity for us to put our names out there and be seen in the community,"" she said. ""And I think we're going to be successful with that.""
