Elon Athletics collects over $ 730,000 on Elon Day's record day

]Elon, NC-Die Elon Athletics Community has set a new record by getting together to collect more than $ 730,000 for the Elon student athletes for the 12^TH Annual Elon Day, annual giving day at Elon University, on Thursday, March 6th.

Elon Alumni, former athletes, parents, fans and employees took part in various challenges and initiatives all day and contributed to an impressive total number of 1,192 gifts to support the holistic development of our student athletes, including improvements in technology, nutrition, sports performance, the global possibilities and many other areas to promote academic and complete excellence. The support from 38 states and four countries showed the far-reaching effects of the Elon community.

The support for Elon Athletics met with all sports programs that supported important elements of our vision and our plan, contained the challenges for sports programs and a challenge in women's athletics. In addition, over 370 former Elon-athletes-the-die returned to every sport-while 267 parents of current athletes made contributions to support our student athletes.

“Elon Day shows the remarkable generosity and unshakable passion of our Elon family,” said Jenn Strawley, athletics director. “It is really inspiring to observe how our community combines in record-breaking numbers to invest in the success of our student athletes. Elon.”

This year's Elon Day set the university with 6,385 gifts worldwide and collected more than $ 3.1 million. The 1,192 gifts by Elon Athletics were most in every department within the institution. Since Elon Day was founded in 2014, over 57,000 gifts have been made that were generated over 25 million US dollars to support academics, athletics and student experience at Elon.

Elon is grateful for the incredible support of all donors, parents, alumni and friends who came together at the Elon Day to invest in Elon Athletics.

Thank you for shared your love for Elon on Elon Day. See all the great photos from the day Click here.

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