Conference Carolinas Student Athletes Raise Over $12,000 for Make-A-Wish; Mount Olive, Limestone, & Belmont Abbey Win Award
High Point, NC> The Conference Carolinas Student-Athlete Advisory Committees (SAAC) continue to make wishes come true. The 2010-11 campaign was a success and brought almost $900.00 more than last year’s campaign to total $12,959.47.
The leagues SAAC leaders implemented a new award system to reward the efforts completed on each participating campus to help increase funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The new awards reflect sport terminology such as the MVP Award, the Comeback Award, and the Top Play Award. The MVP Award is given to the institution that collected the most funds during the academic year. The Comeback Award is granted to the most improved institution when comparing funds collected from the previous academic year and the Top Play Award is presented to the institution bringing in the most money across all institutions for a single campus event.
2010-11 MVP Award Winner: Mount Olive College - collected a grand total of $3,300.00 during the academic year.
2010-11 Comeback Award Winner: Limestone College - collected $1487.67 more than what they did during the 2009-2010 academic year to total $2957.46 for this year.
2010-11 Top Play Award Winner: Belmont Abbey College –collected $650.00 at their “Mr. Crusader” fundraising event.
(*note -schools cannot win more than one award each year)
“After completing another successful fundraising campaign, Conference Carolinas SAAC programs continue to show their commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation,” stated Assistant Commissioner Angela Tressel. “Over the next academic year, league members will continue to execute unique events centered on making wishes come true.”
The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Born in 1980 when a group of caring volunteers helped a young boy fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, the Foundation is now the largest wish-granting charity in the world, with 66 chapters in the United States and its territories.
With the help of generous donors and more than 25,000 volunteers, the Make-A-Wish Foundation grants a wish every 40 minutes and has granted more than 171,000 wishes in the United States since inception. Make-A-Wish and NCAA Division II entered into a partnership in 2003 and since then funds raised have grown annually as the total contribution to Make-A-Wish now exceeds $1.5 million.
Conference Carolinas is a NCAA Division II athletic conference currently made up of 13 teams from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. These institutions consist of: Barton College, Belmont Abbey College, Coker College, Converse College, Erskine College, King College, Lees-McRae College, Limestone College, Mount Olive College, North Greenville University, Pfeiffer University, Queens University of Charlotte, and St. Andrews Presbyterian College.
