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Athletic ENDOWMENTS

Athletic endowments provide ongoing Alumni Endowment for Rowing—created in William “Buzz” Boomer Endowment for
financial resources for the coaches and 2015 with a gift from the Widra family to support Swimming—created in 2006 by former
their teams. Giving to these funds is a the Men’s and Women’s Rowing programs. swimmers, family, and friends to honor Boomer
commitment that supports varsity sports and support the Swimming program.
in perpetuity. The following is a list of these Prince Family Endowment for Men’s
endowments and the programs they support: Soccer—created in 2003 with a gift from Brian Jane Possee Endowment for Women’s
F. Prince ’86, ’89S (MBA) to support the Men’s Athletics—created in 2011 by an anonymous
Rochester Baseball Endowment—created in Soccer program. donor and later supported by former players,
2010 with a gift by the Guzski Family to support family, and friends to honor Jane and support
the Baseball program. Terry Gurnett Endowment for Women’s Women’s Athletics.
Soccer—created in 2002 with gifts from former
Timothy G. Hale Endowment for players, family, and friends to support the Alumni Endowment for Women’s
Competitive Excellence—created in 2012 Women’s Soccer program. Volleyball—created in 2015 with a gift from
with gifts from his former athletes to honor Jennifer A. Swift ’84 and Gary Stockman ’83 to
Tim and support the Cross Country and Track Blanck Family Endowment for Squash— support the Women’s Volleyball program.
programs. created in 2006 with a gift from Peter D. Blanck
’79S and Wendy Jo Kislik-Blanck ’80 to support Barth Family Endowment for Swimming—
Zachem Family Endowed Fund for Men’s the Squash Program. created in 2016 with a gift from Todd ’84 and
Basketball—created in 2008 with a gift from Carin Barth to support the programmatic needs
Tyler T. Zachem ’88 and Karen Zachem to Peter Lyman Endowed Fund for Tennis of the Swimming program.
support the Men’s Basketball program. and Squash—created with a gift from Peter
Lyman ’47 and continued to be built in memory Maybaum Men’s Soccer Travel Endowment—
Nancy Melvin Taylor Field Hockey Fund— of Peter by his former players to support the created in 2017 with a gift from Richard ’85 and
created in 2004 with gifts from former Squash and Tennis programs. Lauren Maybaum to support the Men’s Soccer
teammates and family in memory of Nancy team’s international and out-of-region travel.
to support the Field Hockey program.
McAllister Fund for Basketball Travel—
Alumni Endowment for Women’s created in 2016 with a gift from Brendan ’05
Basketball—created in 2015 with a gift from and Julie ’02 McAllister to support the Men’s
Louise Stapleton ’89 and Larry Williams to Basketball team’s international and out-of-
support the Women’s Basketball program. region travel.

Pat Stark Endowed Fund for Football— Peter S. DiPasquale ’52 Male Scholar
created in 2014 with a gift from Kathleen E. Award—created in 2015 with a gift from
Stark Landers ’82 and Peter J. Landers ’83 (MS) Peter ’52 and Virginia DiPasquale to
in honor of Coach Pat Stark to support the fund the award given annually
Football program. to the top male scholar for
academic excellence.
Rochester Football Alumni Endowment—
created in 2009 with a gift from Samuel Shatkin Terrence L. Gurnett ’77
Jr., MD, ’79, P’17 and Joni M. Shatkin P’17 to Female Scholar Award—
support the Football program. created in 2017 with gifts from Mark
Goldstein and other friends to fund
Don Smith Golf Endowment Fund— the award given annually to the top
created in 2000 by Donald C. Smith and female scholar for academic excellence.
Penelope T. Smith ’58 (MS) to support the
Golf program. Subsequently supported Peyton Family Team Academic Award—
by former members and friends of the created in 2019 with a gift from the Peyton
golf team in memory of Coach family to fund the award given annually to the
Don Smith. team with the highest cumulative GPA.

For more information about these
endowments, please contact Terry Gurnett at
tgurnett@sports.rochester.edu or
(585) 275-6698.

Nancy Bansbach ’19

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