Badminton awarded for good deed
Fanshawe's involvement in the 2005 World Transplant Games is now providing the college with a brand new scholarship.
The College has made a concerted effort to give back to the local community and from the athletic department that means a lot of volunteering technical experience to local sporting events, which included the games.
“My coaching staff are great technically and have been called on in the past to serve at a variety of games,” Fanshawe's manager of athletics, Mike Lindsay explained. “In the case of the world transplant games we opened up our facilities here on campus for the games as well; so they not only had leadership and technical expertise, but we also gave them the facilities.”
And no good deed goes without recognition.
Once the games had concluded and the Canadian Transplant Association and was trying to decide which 10 institutions to donate the endowment to, Fanshawe's name appeared prominently on the list.
“There was a pool of money to hand out they wanted to recognize those stakeholders,” Lindsay continues. “$10,000 was offered to all the stakeholders and since Cindy Huras (Fanshawe's badminton coach) served as a badminton technical expert during the games they decided to give us the money for a badminton scholarship.”
“These scholarships are important to us.” Jonathan Hillis, FSU's VP of athletics, explains. “Our athletes are in school, training, going to practice and trying to work at the same time because sometimes the income isn't there. So anything we can do to help financially is important.”
The first order of business is coming up with a name for the scholarship as well as building up the endowment so that once all the details are finalized the recipient, or recipients, will be able to collect a decent sized scholarship. Once that happens it will become available to the students.
The College has made a concerted effort to give back to the local community and from the athletic department that means a lot of volunteering technical experience to local sporting events, which included the games.
“My coaching staff are great technically and have been called on in the past to serve at a variety of games,” Fanshawe's manager of athletics, Mike Lindsay explained. “In the case of the world transplant games we opened up our facilities here on campus for the games as well; so they not only had leadership and technical expertise, but we also gave them the facilities.”
And no good deed goes without recognition.
Once the games had concluded and the Canadian Transplant Association and was trying to decide which 10 institutions to donate the endowment to, Fanshawe's name appeared prominently on the list.
“There was a pool of money to hand out they wanted to recognize those stakeholders,” Lindsay continues. “$10,000 was offered to all the stakeholders and since Cindy Huras (Fanshawe's badminton coach) served as a badminton technical expert during the games they decided to give us the money for a badminton scholarship.”
“These scholarships are important to us.” Jonathan Hillis, FSU's VP of athletics, explains. “Our athletes are in school, training, going to practice and trying to work at the same time because sometimes the income isn't there. So anything we can do to help financially is important.”
The first order of business is coming up with a name for the scholarship as well as building up the endowment so that once all the details are finalized the recipient, or recipients, will be able to collect a decent sized scholarship. Once that happens it will become available to the students.
