Women’s Golf Reaches 100% Giving For Second Year

(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) – The Carnegie Mellon University women's golf team once again accepted the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) challenge to give back to the department and reached 100% giving for the second straight year. All eight members of the team gave back to their program.

The women's golf team joins SAAC, the men's basketball team and the women's cross country team as groups to achieve 100% giving. SAAC started the initiative last year and approximately 300 gifts from student-athletes were received.

"As a new varsity team on campus, this is the time when we are establishing our reputation among the CMU community," said sophomore Ginger Glass. "This is the reputation that will last throughout the future of women's golf at Carnegie Mellon and as a team we hope to have a successful impact on this university community and thus take strides to do everything in our power to better Carnegie Mellon as a whole and leave a positive mark on campus."

Contributions to the athletics department are used to directly support student experience. Last year, the department set a new benchmark for number of donors, as well as dollars raised. The fundraised dollars provided the opportunity to install a state-of-the art video scoreboard and sound system at the tennis facility, upgrade our soccer facility, fund part-time assistant coaching positions, support recruiting efforts, offer leadership programming and offset student contributions for training trips.