Fundraising Friday: Football Coach's Gift Honors TCU Alum, Former Colleague

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Texas Christian University announced Tuesday that head football coach Sonny Dykes and his wife Kate have donated $1 million to TCU athletics. The family’s gift will honor both former coaching colleague Jamaal Powell — who suffered from Guillian-Barré Syndrome and cancer before his death in 2018 at the age of 39 — and Shirley Enis, the late wife of university trustee Hunter Enis, who died in April at the age of 85. As reported by The Dallas Morning News, Powell was a first-team All-Conference USA offensive lineman at TCU and coached at six colleges before he joined Dykes’ staff at SMU prior to the 2018 season. He will have a weight room in the Harrison Family Football Performance Center named in his honor. The other part of the Dykes’ gift is an endowment in Enis’ name to support women’s athletics at TCU.

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