SYDNEY Swans players including Adam Goodes, Jude Bolton, Ryan O’Keefe and Shane Mumford have marked the first day of their 2012 Australia Post community camp with a special visit to the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick.

During their visit, the group was fortunate to meet a brave young boy named Robin in the hospital’s Starlight Express Room.

Robin was taking some time out from his battle with leukaemia, when he was joined by the Swans players for a session on Nintendo Wii’s ‘Just Dance’ game.

Little Robin was quite the mover on the dance floor, teaching the Swans players a thing or two. 

Big man Shane Mumford, who proved in Starlight Room that his best work was done in the middle of the footy field rather than a dance floor, said he was enjoying his time out in the community.

“To come out to the Sydney Children’s Hospital today and meet kids like Robin, that is what these community camps are all about,” Mumford said.

“There is a lot more to life than football, and coming to the hospital really puts that in perspective.

“Hopefully we’ve been able to put a smile on the faces of these sick kids and help take their minds off their troubles for just a little while. It’s also nice to be able to give their parents a bit of a break,” he said.

Mumford is part of a group of players visiting schools, hospitals and football clubs in the Sydney metropolitan area during the two-day camps on Tuesday and Wednesday.  His other teammates are scattered throughout New South Wales in the Illawarra, Bowral, Wagga Wagga, the Central Coast, Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour and Tamworth. 

For more information on the Starlight Foundation, visit www.starlight.org.au.