BLANTYRE, Malawi – Harvard sophomore Sophie Legros of the Harvard women's soccer team has spent much of the summer volunteering with the Coaches across Continents program, run by Seamus Malin '62 and Nick Gates '91.

Legros, a midfielder on the Crimson, recently started a blog discussing her experience with Coaches across Continents and how the program has improved the lives of children through the experience of learning and playing soccer.

To read Legros's blog entry, click here. 

Coaches across Continents, founded in 1990, is a not-for-profit organization designed to develop young people to become modern leaders in their community. Malin, a U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer, and Gates run this organization which allows experiences soccer coaches to work and assist developing regions using a designed soccer education curriculum.

Photo courtesy DSPics.com.