Moon Township, Pa. - The Robert Morris
University women's basketball continued to spread its anti-bullying message by
visiting elementary schools in Oxford, Ohio and Coralville, Iowa during recent
road trips. It marks the third such visit of the season by the team which
initiated the campaign by presenting to Hyde Elementary School in the Moon Area
School District in late October.
The squad took time to present messages about anti-bullying
and the importance of teamwork at Kramer Elementary School, a part of the
Talawanda School District in Oxford, Ohio, and Coralville Central Elementary
School in Coralville, Iowa.
"It was just an excellent presentation by the Robert Morris student-athletes
to come out and see our students and talk to our students about real world
bullying issues that they are seeing across the United States and around the
world," said Kramer Elementary principal Jason Merz. "You have a wide range of
players from different places and they were able to meet our students. We have
students from 27 countries and 19 languages spoken here, so it was neat to have
different perspectives and talk about bullying which is a national epidemic and
we hear about every day."

RMU head coach Sal Buscaglia concluded the presentation by
sending the message to "make someone smile every day", a message that the team
emphasizes on every visit. Merz promised to reinforce the message during
Kramer's morning announcements.
During the squad's most recent visit to Coralville Central
Elementary, in addition to talking about how to prevent bullying and make
school a positive atmosphere the team introduced a song that showed just one
way that a group of diverse people could come together. They did so by
performing a song they created on the 13-hour bus ride to Iowa titled "My
Bacon". The song was a hit with the students, who clapped along and could be
heard singing the chorus as they exited the gymnasium following the squads presentation.
The team intends to continue to spread the message as they
travel throughout the season.