Women's Golf head coach Denise St. Pierre recently traveled to New Orleans with other college coaches and helped construct a new home for a family as part of a rebuilding effort conducted by Habitat for Humanity.

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; June 12, 2006 - Penn State head women's golf coach Denise St. Pierre recently traveled to New Orleans, La. with other college coaches and helped construct a new home for a family as part of a rebuilding effort conducted by Habitat for Humanity. The outgoing president of the National Golf Coaches' Association (NGCA), St. Pierre and her colleagues raised $60,000 since the beginning of the year and this house construction was the culmination of the NGCA's efforts.

The Penn State women's golf team hosted a charity golf tournament back on April 17 to benefit the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity. Helped by that effort as well as the fundraising efforts of about 30 or so other women's golf programs around the country, the NGCA was able to raise the $60,000 needed to build a home for Bernadette Coleman of New Orleans and her family, who lost their home in last year's Hurricane Katrina. The dedication of the new house takes place on June 17.

St. Pierre originally came up with the idea to raise money for the Habitat for Humanity after uncertainties forced the NGCA to move its annual convention from New Orleans to Tahoe, Nev. in January of this year after it was conducted in New Orleans in 2005. After the full amount was raised, St. Pierre and 16 other golf coaches from around the country went to New Orleans to help build complete the house with other volunteers this past weekend.

A story was written in the New Orleans Times Picayune about the efforts of the NGCA. Click here to read.