The Garvy Family Foundation has made a $1 million gift commitment to Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ Athletics. The gift will support the construction of the Wayne Densch Center for Student-Athlete Leadership.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are fully supportive of the Wayne Densch Center for Student-Athlete Leadership and are pleased to be part of this exciting project,\u201d Carol and Robert Garvy said. \u201cÂ鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ has become very special to us and we are particularly interested in the development and future of Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ student-athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Garvys\u2019 son Kevin was a member of the Knights football team from 2008-12, seeing action in every game of his senior season. Kevin Garvy is a 2012 Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ graduate with a bachelor\u2019s degree in finance. The younger Garvy is currently enrolled at Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ as a graduate student and is scheduled to earn his MBA this spring. In addition, Robert Garvy is a member of the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ Athletics Association Board of Directors and the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n
The Wayne Densch Center for Student-Athlete Leadership will serve as the headquarters for Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ student-athletes\u2019 personal, professional and academic development. It will house Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½\u2019s Student-Athlete Leadership Institute, Academic Services for Student-Athletes, Student Services and Compliance departments. The center will also provide operations space to serve more than 500 student-athletes. It will include a multi-purpose classroom, which will hold 200 students, a computer lab, tutoring and mentoring rooms, study space and conference and resource rooms.<\/p>\n
Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ Vice President and Director of Athletics Todd Stansbury said the gift from the Garvy Family Foundation will help ensure the development of Knight student-athletes long into the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very grateful to Carol and Bob Garvy for this wonderful gift,\u201d Stansbury said. \u201cThanks to this commitment from the Garvy Family Foundation, Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ student-athletes \u2013 our Everyday Champions \u2013 will continue to benefit from the Wayne Densch Center for Student-Athlete Leadership for years and years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ President John C. Hitt echoed those sentiments.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means so much to have the generous support of Carol and Bob Garvy and the Garvy Family Foundation,\u201d Hitt said. \u201cThis gift to the Wayne Densch Center for Student-Athlete Leadership will allow our student-athletes to grow into academic and community leaders who will make Knights everywhere proud.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Wayne Densch Center for Student-Athlete Leadership will be located just east of and adjacent to Bright House Networks Stadium. Construction is slated to begin before the end of 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Garvy Family Foundation has made a $1 million gift commitment to Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ Athletics. The gift will support the construction of the Wayne Densch Center for Student-Athlete Leadership. \u201cWe are fully supportive of the Wayne Densch Center for Student-Athlete Leadership and are pleased to be part of this exciting project,\u201d Carol and Robert Garvy said. \u201cÂ鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ has become very special…","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":57641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[517,1810,2510,11539,6628,4857],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-57639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-board-of-trustees","tag-football","tag-john-c-hitt","tag-robert-garvy","tag-todd-stansbury","tag-ucf-athletics"],"yoast_head":"\n