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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.
Penn State Athletics secured a third Founders Gift for the Beaver Stadium Revitalization project. The $10 million gift in the second of that size in as many weeks, bringing the Founders Gift fundraising total to $45 million. In May, the Penn State Board of Trustees approved investing in a $700 million renovation of Beaver Stadium, which will grow revenue-generating opportunities, transform the fan and community experience and fuel the future funding for all 31 athletics programs at Penn State, according to the latest give announcement on the PSU athletics website.Leaders in the Beaver Stadium Revitalization project, the Beaver Stadium Founders are donors making transformational gifts of eight figures or more.
The City of Yuma (Ariz.) Parks and Recreation Department will be receiving a $1 million donation from the estate of Jones and Brigida Osborn. Osborn represented Yuma and La Paz counties in the Arizona Legislature for 20 years, while also serving as the editor for the Yuma Sun. As reported by local NBC/CBS affiliate KYMA, the parks and recreation will receive the money in yearly grant amounts of $40,000 to $50,000.
Retired judge Belvin Perry, chairman of the Bethune-Cookman University Board of Trustees, has made a $10,000 donation to help fund an athletic training table. According to the university's Monday announcement, the training table will be available for all B-CU student-athletes competing for the school's 14 .NCAA Division I athletic teams.
Total amount of these gifts:
$12,010,000
