SAN DIEGO — While the Aztecs fell to defeat last night, they were out in the community today bringing a little victory to underserved communities. The players helped nonprofit Feeding San Diego make the days of some Hoover High School families a little brighter.
Feeding San Diego is helping to provide schools with food free of cost. Everything from canned goods to fresh fruit is being distributed to students and their families.
"You know, you're just doing the right thing," Aztecs guard BJ Davis said. "You just want to help. And ultimately, that's that's my goal is, just to really help as many people as I can. So whether I do it on the court or somewhere like here, it just makes me feel good always."
The day included a stop at the gym. Where SDSU assistant coach Jay Dee Luster is on the wall of fame. I asked him how fun it is it to bring the players to his alma mater. "It's an honor," Luster said. "I mean, for them to come here and see where I played, where I developed my game, and for them to be here is just it's surreal. And maybe they'll listen a little bit more when I'm talking to them. Maybe they understand I did it at one point in time, too."
Aztecs guard Miles Byrd noticed that Aztecs legend Milton "Milky" Phelps also attended Hoover. "I didn't realize he came to Hoover," Byrd said. "So I guess we got a bunch of SDSU legends. He's (Luster) gonna be a coaching legend. So we got some SDSU legends that are from Hoover. That's pretty cool."
With his assistant coach over his shoulder, I asked Miles who is more impressive, Milky Phelps or JayDee Luster.
"Shout out, Milky Phelps," Byrd said, laughing.
Luster jumped right in. "He (Myles) will have some running to do tomorrow."
"It's really important that we are able to raise more funds for feeding San Diego so that we can open up more school pantries at schools just like Hoover high," Dana Williams of Feeding San Diego said.
Feeding San Diego says they have 48 schools in the pantry program and a waiting list of 40 more schools. It's with events like today, they hope the programs will come to those 40 schools, and more.