{"id":269134,"date":"2026-04-15T14:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269134\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:28:11","slug":"san-dieguito-academy-lacrosses-pull-up-for-hunger-raises-12500-for-san-diego-food-bank-san-diego-union-tribune-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269134\/","title":{"rendered":"San Dieguito Academy lacrosse\u2019s Pull Up for Hunger raises $12,500 for San Diego Food Bank \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 23, the San Dieguito Academy lacrosse program held its third annual Pull Up for Hunger event, challenging high school athletes to tackle a tough physical exercise to make a difference for San Diegans struggling with food insecurity. This year\u2019s event was bigger than ever, expanding to include not just the boys and girls lacrosse teams but also the boys and girls track teams, with over 80 students participating in doing pull-ups for pledged dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The event brought in its largest ever funds raised of $12,500, which will provide over 25,000 meals at the San Diego Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"San Dieguito Academy lacrosse senior Dom Cinzori led the way...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ENA-L-PULLUPFORHUNGER-03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>San Dieguito Academy lacrosse senior Dom Cinzori led the way with 30 pull-ups. (Barb Wiens)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"San Dieguito Lacrosse players volunteered time at the San Diego...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ENA-L-PULLUPFORHUNGER-02.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ENA-L-PULLUPFORHUNGER-02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>San Dieguito Lacrosse players volunteered time at the San Diego Food Bank. (Vinnie Whibbs)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SDA lacrosse athletes at the third annual Pull Up for...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ENA-L-PULLUPFORHUNGER-04.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ENA-L-PULLUPFORHUNGER-04.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SDA lacrosse athletes at the third annual Pull Up for Hunger event. (Barb Wiens)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>San Dieguito Academy lacrosse senior Dom Cinzori led the way with 30 pull-ups. (Barb Wiens)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vinnie Whibbs, SDA\u2019s JV lacrosse head coach, came up with the idea for the jogathon-style fundraiser using the pull-up bar positioned off to the side of the field at SDA. With all of his teams, the SDA alum stresses the importance of community service and giving back. In addition to the fundraiser, the boys lacrosse team volunteered at the San Diego Food Bank warehouse on March 26, packing 660 boxes of food for senior citizens, totaling 23,000 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Top performers from the event included boys lacrosse senior Dom Cinzori with 30 pull-ups and girls lacrosse player Morgan Lenac\u2019s 63-second bent arm hang, as well as boys track\u2019s Jack Prior with 12 pull-ups, girls track\u2019s Eiia Hext and\u00a0 Kaedence Unrein with 10 pull-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Girls Coach Frankie\u00a0Finley, also a SDA alum, pulled off a 63-second bent arm hang and Coach Whibbs himself did 29 pull-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On March 23, the San Dieguito Academy lacrosse program held its third annual Pull Up for Hunger event,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4602,38338,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-269134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-encinitas-advocate","tag-encinitas-advocate-sports","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}