SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - Wittenberg University football student-athletes, coaches and even family members worked together to make important contributions to the Springfield community on Saturday, May 4.

Every year, the Tiger football program participates in a spring service project, which helps to build team camaraderie as the non-traditional spring season winds down. In 2014, a large group of student-athletes volunteered to work on three Habitat for Humanity homes on the south side of Springfield.

Wittenberg football student-athletes and coaches handled a variety of landscaping duties, pulling weeds, mulching flower beds and planting trees and bushes.

Wittenberg has won four of the last five North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) championships and has won at least one NCAA Division III Tournament game in three of those seasons. The Tigers are coming off a 2013 season that ended with records of 10-2 overall and 9-0 in the NCAC.

The 2014 season opens Saturday, Sept. 6, with a home game against Butler. The opening kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.