Bethune-Cookman College is poised to make historical past because the U.S. Tennis Affiliation Florida prepares to donate $100,000 to assemble the college’s first on-campus tennis courts. The examine presentation ceremony is scheduled for Feb. 28 at 4:30 p.m. on the Bethune-Cookman Performing Arts Middle in Daytona Seaside, Florida. This funding is pivotal for the B-CU athletics program and its student-athletes.
B-CU is residence to a girls’s tennis workforce that competes within the Southwestern Athletic Convention, however the college has but to ascertain a males’s tennis program. The Wildcats have to this point struggled with off-site apply and competitors, which has restricted scholar involvement and introduced logistical points. The establishment hopes that the on-campus services will enhance its recruiting efforts, help participant improvement, and create a tradition of championship-winning athletics.
On the ceremony, USTA Florida leaders will discuss their dedication to selling tennis at Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities, and college officers will stress the significance of the brand new courts.
The ladies’s workforce has participated in distinguished competitions, together with the HBCU Nationwide Championships in September and the SWAC Fall Event in October. Their season resumed in January, culminating within the workforce’s pursuit of success on the SWAC Championship in New Orleans this April.
This donation comes after tennis champion Coco Gauff launched the same $100,000 scholarship program earlier this month to help HBCU college students taking part in aggressive tennis by way of the UNCF.
Along with being a optimistic transfer for B-CU, the funding helps the USTA Florida’s overarching objective of fostering the game of tennis at HBCUs.
This story initially appeared on HBCU Gameday.
