While the Clemson Tiger Football Team enjoys success on the field, Coach Swinney’s All In Team Foundation continues to make an impact in the upstate community.

Wednesday students in Clemson University’s Call Me Mister Program attended practice and joined the team for their evening meal as guests of the Foundation. The students were introduced individually to the team and cited for their commitment to make a difference after graduation.  The mission of the Call Me MISTER (acronym for Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) National Initiative is to increase the pool of available teachers from a broader more diverse background particularly among the State's lowest performing elementary schools. Student participants are largely selected from among under-served, socio-economically disadvantaged and educationally at-risk communities.

Previously during the fall campaign, Coach Swinney presented Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich with a $5,000 check from the Foundation before the Boston College-Clemson game for the school’s Uplifting Athletes chapter. Uplifting Athletes is a group that raises awareness and funds to fight rare diseases. Herzlich is out this season battling Ewing's Sarcoma, a cancer most found in bone or soft tissue. Herzlich was last year's ACC Defensive Player of the Year. Other schools then followed Coach Swinney’s lead through-out the season in recognizing Herzlich’s battle. A few weeks after the Clemson-BC game, ESPN Game Day traveled to Boston College and featured Herzlich.

Coach and his wife Kathleen teamed with AnMed Health in recognition and celebration of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month kicked of a three-month campaign, Mamo with Dabo, to encourage women over 40 to have regular screenings. AnMed Health has seen an increase in mammograms during the campaign.

The Foundation purchased four (4) season tickets for use by the Phoenix Center Serenity Place. The Phoenix Center is Greenville’s and surrounding counties largest provider of substance abuse services. At Serenity Place, space is available for 16 women and 2 children each. Priority is given to admittance for pregnant women.

Phoenix Center Director Adam Brickner said, “Many of the women in treatment at Serenity Place have had lot of things go wrong in their lives.  They have not seen a lot of happiness, and they’ve had few opportunities to feel valued or special.  That all changes, for at least a day, when the women are able to take part in the joy, excitement and celebration of a Clemson home game in Death Valley.  They come back to Serenity Place smiling, laughing and feeling good.  We’re very grateful for the generosity of Coach Swinney and the All-in Team Foundation for their dedication to address addiction as a leading cause of family collapse and harm to children.”

Working with the Kids Club Foundation in Anderson, S.C. which focuses on assisting children battling cancer, patients were brought to Clemson home games and had the opportunity to join the Tigers on the sidelines for pre-game warm-ups and meet Coach Swinney. Roy Jeffcoat from the Kids Club Foundation stated, “Because of the All In Team Foundation support at our summer fund raiser we were able to operate for another year and help these young children in their battle against cancer. At the FSU game one patient was able to get her picture taken with Coach, Perry Tuttle, and Erin Andrews. She said it was the best day of her life!”

Coach Swinney with Dr. Roy Jones and Call Me Mister Students after Practice