Members of the LSU football team recently visited the children's ward at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center as part of the Shaquille O'Neal CHAMPS/Life Skills program. Defensive end Al Jones, offensive linemen Peter Dyakowski and Garett Wibel, and fullback Shawn Jordan visited with the children in the pediatric ward of the hospital. The players spoke with the patients and their families, signed autographs and handed out LSU temporary tattoos. The CHAMPS (Challenging Athletes Minds for Personal Success)/Life Skills Program was designed by the NCAA to help student-athletes realize higher academic achievement, increase likelihood of graduation and enter a chosen profession with a higher level of vision, knowledge, motivation, self-responsibility and greater overall success. In Spring 2003, the CHAMPS/ Life Skills Program at LSU honored one of the Tigers' most memorable graduates, Shaquille O'Neal, by naming the program after him.