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Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Donates $35,000 to Ole Miss Charities
Batson Children's Hospital and an Endowed Scholarship Benefit from Charity Golf Event
Head coach Hugh Freeze
May 8, 2015
ATLANTA, Ga. -- Batson Children's Hospital received a $20,000 gift in recognition of Team Ole Miss' finish at last week's Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge charity golf tournament. The Rebels' duo of head football coach Hugh Freeze and former basketball standout Sean Tuohy earned a total of $35,000 in winnings, which the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl will split between Batson Children's Hospital and an endowed scholarship at Ole Miss.
"Our mission to give back is a driving force in everything that we do," said Gary Stokan, President and CEO of Peach Bowl, Inc. "We're grateful for the participation of these coaches and celebrities, and are happy to have the opportunity to give something back to their universities and the causes that are so close to their hearts."
Among the Ole Miss duo's accomplishments last week was a seventh-place overall finish, and Freeze winning the longest drive competition among the head coaches.
Batson Children's Hospital, part of Children's of Mississippi, is located at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. It is the only hospital in the state devoted exclusively to the care and treatment of sick and injured youngsters. Batson houses the state's only Level I pediatric trauma unit, pediatric intensive care and cardiac intensive care units, and its pediatric surgical suite is the only one of its kind offering inpatient clinical care for a wide range of specialty surgeries. The spectrum of care ranges from well-child care for healthy newborns to comprehensive care for cancer, epilepsy, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, allergies, diabetes and numerous other childhood illnesses.
Following its mission to support scholarship and charity at all levels, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge will pay out a total of $520,000 to its 13 participating teams this year, with the winnings being split between the charity of each team's choice and an endowed scholarship at each university.
In addition to the $520,000 charity and scholarship purse, another $113,305 was generated for charitable organizations including the American Diabetes Association. Over the last nine years, the event has contributed a total of $5.3 million in scholarship and charity.
In 2014, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl recorded its eighth straight year of more than $1 million in giving. Since 2002, college football's most charitable bowl game has distributed $17.6 million in charity and scholarship.
ABOUT THE CHICK-FIL-A PEACH BOWL CHALLENGE
The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge is the country's premier head coach and celebrity charity golf event featuring NCAA head coaches and former athletes and celebrities from the same school competing against their rivals for $520,000 in charity and scholarship. In the past nine years, the Challenge has distributed a total of $5.3 million in scholarship and charity. The tournament will be broadcast on ESPNU in August and December.
Follow Ole Miss Football on Twitter (@OleMissFB) and Facebook (Facebook.com/OleMissFootball), in addition to www.OleMissSports.com.
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Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Donates $35,000 to Ole Miss Charities
Batson Children's Hospital and an Endowed Scholarship Benefit from Charity Golf Event
Head coach Hugh Freeze
May 8, 2015
ATLANTA, Ga. -- Batson Children's Hospital received a $20,000 gift in recognition of Team Ole Miss' finish at last week's Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge charity golf tournament. The Rebels' duo of head football coach Hugh Freeze and former basketball standout Sean Tuohy earned a total of $35,000 in winnings, which the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl will split between Batson Children's Hospital and an endowed scholarship at Ole Miss.
"Our mission to give back is a driving force in everything that we do," said Gary Stokan, President and CEO of Peach Bowl, Inc. "We're grateful for the participation of these coaches and celebrities, and are happy to have the opportunity to give something back to their universities and the causes that are so close to their hearts."
Among the Ole Miss duo's accomplishments last week was a seventh-place overall finish, and Freeze winning the longest drive competition among the head coaches.
Batson Children's Hospital, part of Children's of Mississippi, is located at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. It is the only hospital in the state devoted exclusively to the care and treatment of sick and injured youngsters. Batson houses the state's only Level I pediatric trauma unit, pediatric intensive care and cardiac intensive care units, and its pediatric surgical suite is the only one of its kind offering inpatient clinical care for a wide range of specialty surgeries. The spectrum of care ranges from well-child care for healthy newborns to comprehensive care for cancer, epilepsy, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, allergies, diabetes and numerous other childhood illnesses.
Following its mission to support scholarship and charity at all levels, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge will pay out a total of $520,000 to its 13 participating teams this year, with the winnings being split between the charity of each team's choice and an endowed scholarship at each university.
In addition to the $520,000 charity and scholarship purse, another $113,305 was generated for charitable organizations including the American Diabetes Association. Over the last nine years, the event has contributed a total of $5.3 million in scholarship and charity.
In 2014, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl recorded its eighth straight year of more than $1 million in giving. Since 2002, college football's most charitable bowl game has distributed $17.6 million in charity and scholarship.
ABOUT THE CHICK-FIL-A PEACH BOWL CHALLENGE
The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge is the country's premier head coach and celebrity charity golf event featuring NCAA head coaches and former athletes and celebrities from the same school competing against their rivals for $520,000 in charity and scholarship. In the past nine years, the Challenge has distributed a total of $5.3 million in scholarship and charity. The tournament will be broadcast on ESPNU in August and December.
Follow Ole Miss Football on Twitter (@OleMissFB) and Facebook (Facebook.com/OleMissFootball), in addition to www.OleMissSports.com.
