Athletics 1906 Challenge 2022

1906 Challenge

The 1906 Challenge is meant to celebrate the entire Pace community and recognize our founding year of 1906. We want to celebrate our history, the growth of our University, and the bright future ahead. The purpose of our Giving Day is to increase philanthropic support among the Pace community and increase alumni participation for this fiscal year. Our goal is to reach $150,000 by the end of the 1906 challenge. This goal will be reached with the help our alumni, friends, parents, faculty, staff, and students.

Athletics Goal: $50,000

SETTER MATCHES!!!!!!!!

Join your fellow Setter fans with matching gifts!

• In celebration of head coach Carrie Seymour eclipsing the 500 career wins plateau, Kim Farrell '00 will match $4 per $1 given to women's basketball (up to $2,000). MATCH MET!
• Jerry McAuliffe '86 will match $1 per $1 for all football gifts donated up to $2,500.
• Mike and Lori McLaughin, P '19, will give $1,000 to the Setter program who has the most percentage of alumni gifts (based on alumni base count).
• Women's Basketball head coach Carrie Seymour will match $1,000 for the next 50 donations to women's basketball.
• Gene Westmoreland '65 will match $1,500 given to the the Setter athletics program as a whole. Go Setters! MATCH MET!

Interested in a matching gift for the 1906 Challenge?? Contact Kristin Quinn, Associate Athletic Director for External Operations (kquinn2@pace.ed).

What Is it For??

Our Pace Athletics programs have some wish list items that your donations can help go toward! Our 1906 Wishlist includes fundraising goals such as:

• New white uniforms for the football team.
• Competition fee and travel costs for our cheerleading team.
• Future travel and equipment upgrades for our nationally ranked men's and women's lacrosse teams.
• A dedicated indoor batting facility for our softball and baseball teams or updated practice equipment like pitching screens.
• Practice equipment such as a new whiteboard on wheels, new ball carts, radar gun, box stands and blocking tools for our volleyball squad.
• UDA Summer camp expenses and new uniforms for the Setter dance team.
• Continued funding for the Joe O'Donnell Endowment for women's soccer.
• Championship suits, swim technique equipment and over the water diving harness for our swimming and diving teams.
• Travel to a kick off tournament in South Carolina in 2022 for Pace field hockey.
• Charter buses for our men's and women's basketball teams.

The list can go on and on! Your support helps keep Setter sports teams stay competitive nationally and across the NE10 conference.

How You Can Help:

Ambassadors – Pace community members (alumni, students, friends, faculty, etc.) can serve as ambassadors. A toolkit will be made available that will outline all the ways community members can support Giving Day.

Connect & Follow Us on Social Media

Pace Alumni will be driven to our social media pages for updates on the 1906 Challenge.

Twitter: @PaceUAlumni Facebook: PaceAlumni Instagram: @PaceUAlumni

Share, Post and Tweet!

We will encourage our alumni to share, retweet, and like our 1906 Challenge posts that will use the hashtag #Pace1906. Sample posts will be provided between now and May 27.