“We have a simple style. Pass. Move. Share the ball. We’re all ballplayers. In a sense we don’t have positions. Everyone’s on offense. Everyone’s on defense. It’s our ball. We want the ball. We pass it to get it back. You don’t get it back if you stand still. So...” GARRETT SMITH C O A C H , P I L OT W O M E N ’ S S O C C E R
O heavens there are a thousand ways the Campaign wants to lure gifts toward sports and athletics and the health and zest of students. You can make gifts toward endowed scholarships for student-athletes. (Did you know there’s a Shortstop Scholarship? We kid you not.) Or weight rooms and locker rooms. Or the huge dream of the recreation and wellness center that will replace Howard Hall (after 9000 years). Or the new varsity women’s crew team, which begins next year. Or the boathouse for crew that we dream about on the new River Campus someday. Or you can create a graduate school fund for the student-athlete who earns the highest grades (last year baseball player C.J. Cullen, with a 3.98 in engineering, wow). Or a fund to buy new kilts for the nutty Villa Maria Drum Squad boys who sprint around the field when the Pilots score a goal. Or...well, call Colin McGinty with your gift idea: 503.943.8005, mcginty@up.edu.
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