Pledge Your Financial Support in Good Faith to the Effort to Save Syracuse Swimming and Diving

The Save Syracuse Swimming and Diving Foundation, Ltd. has begun the effort of collecting good-faith pledges. No contribution is needed at this time. We are awaiting our not-for profit status so that a Fiduciary Account can be created where all monies to support the program will be held. All funds will be tax-deductible; our tax exempt status is pending. If you can make a good faith pledge, please fill out the form below. Your information will be kept confidential. All funds donated will be used explicitly to preserve and expand the Syracuse University Swimming and Diving Program. The information that you submit using the form below will be kept strictly confidential.

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Alternatively you may pledge your support in good faith by calling or sending a letter to Mr. John Leonard:

Phone Number: 800.356.2722 or 954.563.4930, Fax: 954.563.9813
e-Mail: jleonard@swimmingcoach.org

Address: American Swimming Coaches Association
National Office
Attn: John Leonard
5101 NW 21st Avenue, Suite #200
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309

About the proposal that was presented to Chancellor Nancy Cantor and the Syracuse University Board of Trustees on October 4, 2007 --

The proposal asked that the one-year grace period that Athletic Director Daryl Gross has given the team to compete this year be extended to a three-year period over which time funding and mechanisms for ensuring both short-term and long-term financial solvency of the program be established. The Committee's short-term goal is to seek financial support to offset operating costs of the Swimming and Diving program. The long-term goal is to endow in whole, or in part the coaching positions and the maximum number of scholarships allowed by the NCAA, with an eventual goal of funding a Syracuse Recreational Center as a shared resource between the Community and the University that will house a 50 meter swimming and diving facility, an ice rink and a fully equipped fitness and recreational center.

The more potential financial support, in the form of your pledges, that we can show Administrators, the better our chances will be to reverse the Athletic Department decision.

Thank you for your support of the Syracuse Swimming and Diving program. Keep the tradition alive!