BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Director of Communications Ed Haas tops the 2022-23 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Volunteer 15 Initiative List for volunteer/community service hours.
Volunteer 15 is an initiative launched in 2014-15 to get College Sports Communicators members (formerly the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of American/CoSIDA) more involved in their communities. Members promote the great civic works done by their athletics teams but there is no promotion, or very little, about CSC members doing community service either with these teams or independently. CSC members are encouraged to volunteer at least 15 hours of community service each academic year.Haas tops the list for the sixth time – and the fifth time in as many years – with 1,300 hours. Previously, he led the 2016-17 list with 1,210 hours, the 2018-19 list with 1,696 hours, the 2019-20 list with 1,740, the 2020-21 list with 1,700 and the 2021-22 list with 1,356.
Outside the office, he has served as a member of the CSC Academic All-America Committee and the West Sadsbury Township (Pa.) Planning Commission for over a decade. In March 2015, Haas was appointed to the three-member West Sadsbury Township Board of Supervisors, the Keystone Valley Fire District (KVFD) Board and was elected Vice-Chairman of both the Board of Supervisors and Fire District Board in April of 2015. He was reelected to another six-year term on the West Sadsbury Township Board of Supervisors in the Fall of 2017 and was elected Chairman of both the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors in January 2020. In addition, he continues to serve as both the Vice Chairman of the KVFD Board, Chairman of the Planning Commission and Vice Chairman of the West Sadsbury Board of Supervisors, in addition to volunteering his time to various charitable efforts in the community.
Overall, the number of participants and volunteer hours for the Volunteer 15 program increased for the ninth consecutive year to 13,630. The program has set a record every year since its inception in 2014-15 and has totaled 75,651 hours of community service over the past nine years.
