Courtesy of Massachusetts Maritime Sports Information

Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of the Academy’s cadets and staff, the Massachusetts Maritime Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and members of the Buccaneer Athletic Department staff delivered a record number 673 new and unwrapped toys on Monday morning as part of the annual Christmas toy drive to benefit Children’s Cove of Cape Cod.

SAAC members 1/c Matthew McDonough (Framingham, Mass./Framingham), 2/c Tom Pelletier (Bradford, Mass./Central Catholic), Kaylene Murphy (Randolph, Mass./Ursuline Academy) and Haley Delahanty (Holden, Mass./Wachusett Regional), along with 3/c Eli DiTullio (Marshfield, Mass./Marshfield), helped load the toys that have been left over the last three weeks under the Christmas tree in the Clean Harbors Athletic Center lobby.

Children’s Cove is a freestanding, child-friendly facility designed to ensure that victims of child sexual abuse and their non-offending family members have access to support and services in a safe, respectful and compassionate environment.  McDonough, Pelletier and DiTullio represented the cadet community on the visit to the facility, which they toured along with seven members of the Massachusetts Maritime athletic staff.  Over the past five years, the Buccaneer SAAC has helped gather nearly 1,700 toys for Children’s Cove.

For more information on Children’s Cove, please visit www.childrenscove.org.