MENOMONEE FALLS — The Menomonee Falls High School football team turned their community practice into a service opportunity, collecting non-perishable food items for families affected by recent devastating floods.
The team's annual community football practice became a chance to help neighbors who are still picking up the pieces after historic flooding damaged homes throughout the area.
"We are trying to be the best that we can be on the field, off the field for our community,"a football parent, Tiffany Bohlmeier said.
The team collected food to donate to the the Falls Area Food Pantry. The food pantry serves multiple communities affected by the flooding, including Germantown, Brookfield, Menomonee Falls, and Richfield.
"Now we can bring all this together for them and hopefully help those who lost a lot," Bohlmeier said.
Watch: Menomonee Falls football team collects food donations after historic flooding
The team collected hundreds of items to donate.
"Driving here tonight just seeing all the stuff on the side of the road, and ya know people's driveways and their front yards is just really sad. So anything we can do to help to ease things is amazing," another parent, Sherri Mayer said.
"We try to stick together as a community and help each other," Mayer added.
Head Football Coach Bobby Regent-Smith sees this as an important learning opportunity for his players.
"They've got an opportunity to help people and you always need to do that," Regent-Smith said.
Bohlmeier hopes their efforts inspire others to contribute as well.
"Hopefully it will inspire others to get out here and help even more," she said.
The team will deliver the collected food items to the pantry on Thursday.
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