Golf Volunteers Aid Knoxville's Love Kitchen

Nov. 19, 2009

Tennessee's men's golf team spent Wednesday afternoon volunteering at The Love Kitchen, a Knoxville non-profit agency that serves food to approximately 2,000 people in need each year.

Head coach Jim Kelson, assistant coach Casey VanDamme and the Vols squad have made this an annual community outreach service event. Each year the team travels to the kitchen, where they spend time as cooks to help prepare food served to the homebound and homeless in the Knoxville area.

After donning aprons and rolling up sleeves, the team got busy putting together hundreds of boxed dinners to be sent out Wednesday night. The student-athletes had fun adding a little "spice" to the day by practicing their cooking skills in the kitchen. The team showed that you don't even have to be the world's greatest cook to make a different in someone's life by spending time volunteering.

Team members participating this year were seniors James Brannen and David Holmes, juniors Cameron Lawrence and Robin Wingardh, sophomores Garrick Porteous, Darren Renwick and Justin Walker, and freshmen Adam Myers and Jay Vandeventer.