{"id":49113,"date":"2018-08-21T12:56:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=49113"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:03:35","slug":"presidents-golf-tournament-supports-student-athletes","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/presidents-golf-tournament-supports-student-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual President\u2019s Golf Tournament Supports Student Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Annual President\u2019s Golf Tournament Supports Student Athletes\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Participants in the 13th annual President\u2019s Golf Tournament teed off Aug. 20 at Stonebridge Golf Club<\/a> and held a reception and dinner at Carleton University\u2019s Ravens’ Nest, raising $140,000 for student athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event is one of the most successful annual charitable tournaments in the Ottawa region. It\u2019s supported by Carleton\u2019s corporate and service providers through tournament sponsorship fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its launch in 2006, the tournament has raised more than $1.9 million to support Carleton\u2019s hundreds of student athletes on varsity teams. Proceeds also go to the Ravens Fund, an endowment for future student athletes at the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golfers at this year\u2019s tournament, including prominent donors and alumni, enjoyed pristine weather, a BBQ lunch, gourmet on-course hospitality and first-class championship course conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student athletes volunteered to help make the tournament a success.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A Source of Pride and Connection<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAthletics has been an important part of the Carleton story from the very beginning,\u201d said Carleton President Benoit-Antoine Bacon. \u201cThey are \u2013 and always have been\u2014an undeniable part of the Carleton experience\u201d and a \u201csource of pride and connection for athletes and their fans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bacon thanked the student athletes for their tireless academic and athletic commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Benoit-Antoine Bacon meets with dinner attendees after the tournament.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou have an impact. Your participation here makes a difference for today\u2019s scholar athletes and, ultimately, for the community we serve. You\u2019re helping us write the inspirational stories for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Poujade, announcer for Ravens home games, was the master of ceremonies at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n

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An Invaluable Impact<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Two Carleton student athletes – Nicole Gilmore<\/a> of the women\u2019s basketball team and Mitch Wood<\/a> of the men\u2019s basketball team – spoke about the invaluable impact of funds raised by the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe proceeds raised from the President\u2019s Golf Tournament are incredibly important to our student athletes . . .  as they pursue excellence in both their academics and athletics,\u201d said Jennifer Brenning, assistant vice-president (Recreation and Athletics) and chair of the event. \u201cOur student-athletes are very appreciative of the support they receive from this tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A golfer lines up a putt during tournament play.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Carleton\u2019s athletic teams have excelled in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2017-2018 season, the women\u2019s basketball team played an undefeated regular season (23 straight games) and pushed the momentum into the playoffs, taking home their first-ever national title.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men\u2019s team also went undefeated in the regular season and won bronze in the playoffs. In the past 15 years, the team has won a monumental 13 national titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the football realm, the Ravens have won the Panda Game against the University of Ottawa four times in a row. On Sept. 29, the team will attempt to take home Pedro the Panda for the fifth straight time at TD Place Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 13th edition of the tournament was sponsored by C&W Services<\/a>, a facilities services and management company, and Aramark Canada<\/a>, a customer service business across the food, facility and uniform industry.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Participants in the 13th annual President\u2019s Golf Tournament teed off Aug. 20 at Stonebridge Golf Club and held a reception and dinner at Carleton University\u2019s Ravens’ Nest, raising $140,000 for student athletes. The event is one of the most successful annual charitable tournaments in the Ottawa region. It\u2019s supported by Carleton\u2019s corporate and service providers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":49122,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[17,18],"cu_story_tag":[1924,1928],"class_list":["post-49113","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-alumni","cu_story_type-athletics-recreation","cu_story_tag-advancement","cu_story_tag-athletics"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/49113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/49113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97502,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/49113\/revisions\/97502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=49113"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=49113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}