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Summer 2018 Newsletter Nearly $22 million raised in scholarship support since 1981 Total scholarshi p dollars awarded for 2018-19: $ 949,949 Swim 2018-19 Scholarship Recipients: 50 (36 universities nationwide) With Mike Total number of Swim With Mike by th e scholarship recipients: 232 Total sports represented: 60 NUMBERS Universities represented: 123 We could not have accomplished this without your help. Thank you ! IN THIS ISSUE SAVE THE DATES Honoring our graduates Saturday, July 21 - Third Annual Bike-a-thon, Draper, Utah Saturday, September 1 - Hawai’i Swim With Mike in conjunction with Campaign Waikiki Roughwater Swim highlights Saturday, November 10 - USC Homecoming, USC vs Cal. Visit the SWM booth to meet recipients / get goodies / sign up to be a Campaign Director Satellite Friday/Saturday, April 5 & 6, 2019 - SWM Wheelchair Basketball, Lyon Center, USC report Saturday, April 6 - 39th annual Swim With Mike. USC Uytengsu Aquatics Center s e Also in 2019: l Upcoming e g n events A Swim With Mike Rose Bowl Aquatics Center – March 30 – April 5 s o L , . Swim With Mike University of California San Diego - TBA c n I Swim With Mike o Swim With Mike University of California Santa Barbara - TBA r r a by the numbers v a N Summer 2018 . R . J Physically Challenged Athletes Scholarship Fund : And more! n Newsletter • • g University of Southern California Heritage Hall MC 0602 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0602 i s Please check out our website at www.swimwithmike.org to learn more about our e fundraising activities, or to join our team as a Campaign Director ! D Physically Challenged Athletes Scholarship Fund A Record Year of Success Ron Orr Founder & Executive Director The Ripple Effect is Making Waves ur 38th annual campaign for the that the bonds are established as they share physically challenged athletes the ups and downs, challenges and rewards, Oschol arship fund was a great success, through the collegiate years and beyond. thanks to our amazing team of volunteers, We love to get to know these students and 38th Annual Swim With Mike friends, donors and of course, our outstanding each one has a singular story of learning to scholarship recipients and their families. take a shockingly tragic life-challenging As we look back over this year we find a ac cident and drawing from it the strength common thread, what we call the ripple effect, to conquer even loftier goals than they ever Appreciation and gratitude that continues to strengthen our family and imagined. The stories are inspiring and create a tidal wave of support. amazing, and we are honored to share them hank you for supporting the yearbook, and the in-kind With tremendous appreciation, with you as what begins as a ripple gathers the 38th annual Swim With donations like the ten billboards we thank these truly great and The best example of how this all works is by the strength to make a meaningful wave – Mike so generously. I am around Southern California. All generous friends of Swim With following the stories of how we learn about actually 232 waves! T potential scholarship recipients, how they proud to report that this year’s of these “ripples” of influence Mike. learn about us, and once awarded a Swim We are always most proud to introduce our campaign raised over $1.7 million, contribute to the wave of support With Mike scholarship, how we welcome scholarship awardees to you as new recipi - including $400,000 in new for these young student-athletes We have 15 graduating scholarship them into our life-long family. ents, share their stories of accomplishment en dowment gifts. facing challenges every day as recipients who are preparing through their journey, highlight them as they strive to reach their full for the next exciting chapter of Each Physically Challenged Athletes Scholarship they graduate and keep up with them as A huge thank you to the campaign potential. their lives. Please enjoy a few Fund Board of Directors member interviews they successfully pursue their professional directors, volunteers and friends of these graduates’ words of a prospective scholarship recipient and and personal goals. They are our Swim With who contributed to our success. This past year we were extremely gratitude about the impact con tinues the relationship by mentoring at Mike family, as are you, and we are grateful Together, we are enhancing the fortunate to have received four your gifts have made. In addition, least one scholarship recipient. This ensures indeed. lives of our recipients as they new endowed scholarship com - our SWM Board of Directors has pursue their educational and mitments. These legacy gifts approved 14 new scholarship professional goals. We are also will ensure the Swim With Mike recipients. We will feature these grateful for the commitment of Physically Challenged Athletes outstanding young men and our current scholarship recipients Scholarship Fund will be available women in the forthcoming Fall and their families to help ensure to future generations in perpe - issue. that future deserving physically tuity. challenged students will benefit YOU have made a difference in from our program. Meaningful endowment com - the lives of these extraordinary mitments came from our 2016 people, and none of this would Generous gifts were generated Marshall MBA alum scholarship happen without you. from the silent auction, ads in recipient, Nick Ekbatani; SWM founding partner Mara Redden’s With gratitude, ON THE COVER late sister Shawna Hunter and Swim With Mike scholarship her husband Brad Hunt; the recipient Amberley Snyder Furniss Family and Friends en - with her grandparents, Lana dowment; and a new endowed and Gary Bottenfield. scholarship from the Rosemary Photo by Dan Avila. Kraemer Raitt Foundation. Swim with Mike recipients at the 2018 USC Uytengsu event. 2 3 38th Annual Swim With Mike The April 7 USC Uytengsu Event Was A Splashing Success, Thanks to You! t was a great day to celebrate our Swim With Mike scholarship recipients for I their strength, courage, determination and drive, success and independence. We were all inspired to see our current recip ients and alums share their ac com - plishments, their plans, dreams and en couragement for a future of success. The mutual respect among these individuals And of course what would Swim With Mike be without the Song Girls’ crazy diving exhibition? and their families, which was initially born by gaining strength from tragedy, Amberley and Zack represent our 54 continues to expand and grow. These nationwide scholarship community as ex ceptional individuals exemplify the core they expressed their sincere apprecia - of Swim With Mike, and we couldn’t be tion to all the volunteers, donors and more proud. fellow recipients for the support that makes it possible for them to be the Another high point of the day was to Berni Degener and her family. Berni has been making the beneficiaries of so much generosity. hear from a couple of our scholarship Treasure Chest a successful part of every SWM event for 22 years! Other highlights included the Masters re cipients at our recognition cere - Swim Workout coached by USC Swim mony. This year Amberley Snyder Coach Dave Salo, the tremendous Dive (Utah State University Masters in Show, USC Song Girls and Spirit Squad, School Counseling Fall 2017) and Zack the Biggest Splash Contest, The Silent Wentz (USC Economics 2018) shared Auction and Raffle, the Football Player/ their thoughts about the impact that Song Girl Inner Tube Relay, the their Swim With Mike scholarships Wheelchair Basketball, a fantastic BBQ have had, and will forever have, on and the presentation of the Volunteer their personal, educational, future of the Year award to Bruce Furniss. SWM Board member John Naber reunites with the Furniss brothers, professional lives and, especially, - Continued on page 18 - their former teammates and friends in the USC Uytengsu pool. their independence. SWM alum recipient Mark Fuglevand (USC BS and Masters Accounting 2002) with his son Brandon and Joey Pulford (USC Masters in SWM Alum recipients Daryl Holmlund (USC Masters in Planning 2009) with SWM Board members Kathleen DeCristo and Toby Navarro and SWM Board Member Teaching 2012), Marty O'Connor (Chapman MBA Chip, Craig, Bruce and Steve Furniss with Nick Enriquez (USC Accounting 2003, Southwestern Law 2007). Mike Navarro at the April 7 event. 2017) and Don Hammond (USC Law 2009). Sharon Furniss and Mike. 4 5 Our Graduates In their own Congratulations to our 2018 Swim With Mike Grads! Here are selected quotes from our recipients’ Senior letters to our growing family of donors, volunteers and community. WORDS Today, I want to thank you for helping me achieve a very Thank you for your generous hearts, I assure you important milestone in my life. I’m graduating with my that you are enabling great people to do great things. Masters degree in financial Engineering from Claremont I cannot thank you enough for your generosity and Graduate University. I’m sure that this accomplishment will sup port for my self and all the other recipients. You have chan” ged our lives. cha” nge my life for the very best, and without your support I would not have been able to achieve i t. ” Santos Acosta Corrales Aaron Loy Claremont Graduate University ” UC Santa Barbara M.S. Financial Engineering Economics, Accounting (Spring 2018) (Spring 2018) I want to begin this letter by thanking you for your I am writing to thank you for your support of my unwavering generosity and support throughout my education at the University of Wisconsin School of tenure at USC. Swim With Mike has put me in the position to Medicine and Public Health throughout my four years of obtain my career objective and gave me the unparalleled medical school.
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