Dolphin Athletes to earn their
keep
Players to work at CSI
Foundation’s annual golf outing, with proceeds going toward their
road meals
Staten Island Advance - May 1, 2004
Little did College of Staten Island athletes realize
that the nursery rhyme about the little kid singing for his supper
presaged a real-life experience.
No, Nick Secchini, Jaclyn Badagliacco, Melissa
Quiles and the Gwizdalosky sisters, Cheryl and Rosemary, are not
about to be part of a CSI talent show, but Friday morning, when the
CSI Foundation hosts its annual golf outing at the South Shore
course, they’ll be working for their supper - next season’s whenever
their teams are on the road.
The best thing about this outing is none of the
proceeds are siphoned off: Every nickel is used for the students.
“The first $20,000 goes to the athletes,” CSI
associate athletic director Jason Fein said yesterday. “We use it
for the athletes’ meals when the teams are making trips.”
The rest goes to student leadership programs and for
scholarships based upon need or academics, or both.
The next best thing about Friday’s outing is the
golfers who combine love of sport with a good cause are able to see
where their money goes.
“The donors get to meet the students. They get to
see what their money is doing,” said Donna Lindsey, CSI Foundation
event coordinator.
The golfers also have an opportunity to meet former
New York Jet stars Freeman McNeil and Marty Lyons who will be there
from the buffet breakfast through the 18 holes to the barbecue
lunch.
But the golfers will find student/athletes and
Foundation-aided students every time they turn around - caddying,
passing out beverages on the course, distributing goodie bags,
working the closest-to-the-pin and longest-drive holes, and helping
at the silent auction for sports memorabilia and with the raffles.
And that’s really how it should be: Those who will
benefit from the outing work to make it a success: Working for next
year’s supper.
The cost for the outing, which begins at 8 a.m. with
a shotgun start, is $175 ... Gary Angiulli and Angiulli Motors will
have a new car for a hole-in-one on the par-3, 165-yard eighth hole…
John Mazza, president of ADAK Contractors and Consultants, has
replaced Staten Island Mall general manager Jim Easley as chairman
of the event.
Reprinted here with permission from the
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