WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – The University of Hartford Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) held its semi-annual Coat Drive on Sunday, December 16 collecting more than 130 coats.

The SAAC holds an annual drive around the holidays, this year returning to a coat drive that will benefit Button-Up Connecticut (http://www.buttonupconnecticut.com/). The collection of coats this year surpasses the 2010 drive where 86 coats were collected.

Coats were collected from faculty, staff, students, athletics employees and fans of the University of Hartford.