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PUTTING FORE PIONEERS SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 3
Raffle tickets available today and Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
 DENTON, Texas (Mar. 29) – The third annual Putting Fore Pioneers Tournament will be held on Tuesday, April 3, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on the second floor of the Texas Woman’s University Student Union.
Putting Fore Pioneers is a nine-hole miniature golf tournament. The objective for contestants is to complete all nine holes of golf in the lowest number of strokes. There are four separate divisions of competition: student individual, faculty/staff individual, student team and faculty/staff team. The entry fee to participate is $5 for faculty and staff, and $3 for students.
All contestants that compete in the Putting Fore Pioneers tournament will automatically entered in a raffle to win prizes such as Texas Rangers baseball tickets, Dallas Symphony tickets, Outback Steakhouse gift certificates, Hampton Inn and Suites gift certificates, TWU apparel, Barnes & Noble gift cards, and much more. The prizes will be given away starting at 3 p.m. at the end of the tournament. Fans can purchase their raffle tickets in advance; tickets are being sold on the second floor of the Student Union from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. today and Monday, April 2.
All proceeds from the event benefit student-athlete scholarships.
“We are in the middle of the biggest push of the Pioneer Athletics Fund Drive and Putting Fore Pioneers is a unique way to get our campus community involved,” Director of Athletics Chalese Connors said. “I’m hopeful that instructors, staff members and students will come over to the Student Union next Tuesday and participate in this fun event.”
Each year, approximately 80 Pioneer student-athletes participate in intercollegiate athletics while also excelling academically at the University. For the past 49 consecutive semesters, the cumulative grade point average of all five teams has never dropped below a 3.0. Almost all of these outstanding young women receive some form of scholarship assistance, ranging from small awards to full scholarships that cover tuition, fees, housing, meals and books.
For the 2007-08 academic year, a full grant-in-aid at TWU will cost an estimated $12,626.50 and the amount needed to support the five Pioneer varsity teams is $518,949.15 through a combination of donations, fundraisers, University support, and generated revenue from the Athletics department and its summer camps.
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