WASHINGTON – Georgetown University baseball alum Chris DeMarco (MSB'84) lives in New York City, near Mount Sinai Hospital. He was out walking his dog last month when he saw hospital tents being constructed across the street in Central Park across the street from Mount Sinai to help alleviate the overflow from the COVID-19 cases.
 
DeMarco answered a call for volunteers to help and made several trips back to the Central Park site to help build a 68-bed, 24-tent self-sufficient field hospital. Chris' daughter Isabel also volunteered at the site to outfit tents.
 
"I just jumped in thinking what modest thing I can do to help," DeMarco said from his home in New York. "No different than what any Hoya would do if presented with the situation. I met some kind people and learned some handy things. Overall, it felt good to serve and see people pull together to face such an unknown.
 
"I was nicknamed Santa given my red jacket and hat but glad I had the chance to wear my Georgetown cap a few days given what the Hilltop teaches us about service the whole person."
 
Each evening at 7 p.m., DeMarco and his family join in recognizing the hospital workers in front of the hospitals with cow bells. Additionally, DeMarco, his family and others in the neighborhood collaborate each Thursday night to deliver pizzas from a local restaurant to a nursing ward at Mount Sinai.
 
DeMarco played third base for the Hoyas during his time on the Hilltop and is among Georgetown's career leaders in batting average (.344; 7th), sacrifice bunts (19, T-4th) and on-base percentage (.446, 5th). In 1981, he batted .416 (52-125) with a .507 on-base percentage, both of which rank among the program's top 10 for a single season.