BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian College is joining with schools across the country in celebration of NCAA Division III Week, which officially begins on Monday, April 6 and runs through Sunday, April 12.

This fourth annual event will celebrate student-athletes' academic achievements and athletic accomplishments, in addition to their campus leadership and their involvement in community service.

The Greyhounds will be hosting its annual National Student-Athlete Appreciation Day get together on Monday, April 13 in the evening in Johnston Hall as Moravian will honor its student-athletes that have earned All-Conference, All-Region, All-America and conference academic awards or won individual conference championships so far in 2014-15 as well as the community service projects the Greyhounds have completed.

Moravian kickoff its participation in Division III Week a week early by hosting the Lehigh County and Bethlehem City chapters of Special Olympics for a tournament on Saturday, March 28. Check out more on the event at http://moraviansports.com/information/news/2014-15/20150328gdnqly.

The Greyhounds are also joining with other schools in the Landmark Conference throughout the week for Landmark Gear Day. All student-athletes are being asked to wear their school colors and post pictures to social media with the hashtags #LCgearday and #d3week. The Greyhounds have split up the week with softball and baseball on Monday, April 6, cross country and track & field on April 7, golf, men's and women's tennis and women's volleyball on April 8, men's and women's basketball, field hockey and men's and women's lacrosse on April 9 and football and men's and women's soccer on April 10.

Moravian had a student-athlete from each team answer the question as to why the chose to come to Moravian and Division III. There answers will be posted to the Greyhounds' Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MoravianCollegeAthletics), Twitter (https://twitter.com/MCGreyhounds) and Instagram (http://instagram.com/moravianathletics) accounts as well as digital signage across campus throughout the week.

Two of Moravian's student-athletes, juniors Mary Schlosbon from the softball team and Charles Savite of the baseball squad, wrote stories for the Landmark Conference for a #whyd3 profile as they discussed why they chose Moravian and Division III. Read about Mary http://landmarkconference.org/news/2014-15/whyd3/schlosbon_mary and read about Charles at http://landmarkconference.org/news/2014-15/whyd3/savite_charles.

For more information D3 Week and the NCAA, visit http://www.ncaa.org/d3.