MINNEAPOLIS -- Members of the Augsburg College men's soccer team recently performed a community service project at the Second Harvest Heartland foodshelf, volunteering to pack food for hungry people in this region.

Head coach Greg Holker reported that 15 members of the men's soccer team took part in the service project, packing 9,781 pounds of food.

"It was a good night," Holker said. "Another opportunity for us to tie together a few of the principles we believe strongly in: service, teamwork, and competition."

According to the organization's website, Second Harvest Heartland, based in the Twin Cities, serves and distributes food to the hungry in southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Quoting from the website: "Second Harvest Heartland works to reinvent hunger relief through leadership and innovation. As the Upper Midwest's largest hunger relief organization, our goal is not only to help our hungry neighbors today, but to provide the means for everyone to be fed tomorrow. We're known for distributing great amounts of food quickly and efficiently; in 2011 alone, we collected, warehoused and distributed more than 70 million pounds of food—but we're also constantly pioneering ways to reduce waste and better use the abundant resources available in this land of plenty."