(2/20) Sooners Help Build Together*
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Sooners help build a home together: Sleepy college students filed into a lone bus in the early-morning darkness of the Lloyd Noble Center parking lot Sunday. Destination: Lawton and a new home for a Sooner family. Volunteers from the Oklahoma football and women's basketball teams accompanied by members of the spirit squads and OU Athletics Department staff headed to Comanche County to lend support to a Sooner family selected for ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The television show features local volunteers working together to build new homes for deserving families. In April of 2004, Army sergeant and long-time OU fan Gene Westbrook was hit by a mortar at an American camp mess hall in Baghdad, Iraq. The attack left Westbrook paralyzed. When the program announced its intentions to assist the family, the OU Athletics Department organized volunteers from its own ranks to join the effort. Senior defensive end Alonzo Dotson (Alief, Texas), senior safety Darien Williams (Mesquite, Texas), junior linebacker Curtis Lofton (Kingfisher), sophomore receiver Carter Whitson (Shawnee), redshirt freshman quarterback Sam Bradford (Oklahoma City) and redshirt freshman defensive tackle Gerald McCoy (Oklahoma City) represented the Sooner football team. Sophomores Ashley and Courtney Paris (Piedmont, Calif.), fresh off a road victory at Texas Tech, joined from the women's basketball team. The new home is schedule to be unveiled to the Westbrook family on Thursday. The episode will air on ABC on Sunday, April 8, at 7 p.m. (More at SoonerSports.com)
07 Issues: Passing of an Important Generation: AOL Sports Blog
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Sooners help build a home together: Sleepy college students filed into a lone bus in the early-morning darkness of the Lloyd Noble Center parking lot Sunday. Destination: Lawton and a new home for a Sooner family. Volunteers from the Oklahoma football and women's basketball teams accompanied by members of the spirit squads and OU Athletics Department staff headed to Comanche County to lend support to a Sooner family selected for ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The television show features local volunteers working together to build new homes for deserving families. In April of 2004, Army sergeant and long-time OU fan Gene Westbrook was hit by a mortar at an American camp mess hall in Baghdad, Iraq. The attack left Westbrook paralyzed. When the program announced its intentions to assist the family, the OU Athletics Department organized volunteers from its own ranks to join the effort. Senior defensive end Alonzo Dotson (Alief, Texas), senior safety Darien Williams (Mesquite, Texas), junior linebacker Curtis Lofton (Kingfisher), sophomore receiver Carter Whitson (Shawnee), redshirt freshman quarterback Sam Bradford (Oklahoma City) and redshirt freshman defensive tackle Gerald McCoy (Oklahoma City) represented the Sooner football team. Sophomores Ashley and Courtney Paris (Piedmont, Calif.), fresh off a road victory at Texas Tech, joined from the women's basketball team. The new home is schedule to be unveiled to the Westbrook family on Thursday. The episode will air on ABC on Sunday, April 8, at 7 p.m. (More at SoonerSports.com)
07 Issues: Passing of an Important Generation: AOL Sports Blog
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