FAMU golf team back after Green succeeds in raising $30,000

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The FAMU golf team is back for the 2014-2015 school thanks to the success of a $30,000 fundraising drive led by its coach, Marvin Green.

Green, who also serves as FAMU’s director of student activities, jumped to action after budget cuts led the FAMU Department of Athletics to suspend the golf program in June. He said he wanted to keep the team alive for the benefit of the student-athletes.

“This is what most of these guys have been doing since they were 8, 9 years old; playing golf,” Green said in a quote published by the Tallahassee Democrat. “They've worked hard to get offered a scholarship. They chose FAMU, obviously because of that ability to compete and get a good education.”

The suspension decision threatened the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s (MEAC) ability to retain its automatic berth to the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship tournament. In order to remain eligible for its automatic berth, the MEAC needed six teams. FAMU’s suspension left the MEAC one team short between June and September.

The MEAC apparently came up with a backup plan to ensure it could hold on to its automatic berth this season even if FAMU was unable to afford a team. On Wednesday, September 10, conference officials announced that Georgia Regents University (GRU) had joined the MEAC as “an Associate Member for Men’s Golf.”

Last season, the GRU Jaguar men’s golf program welcomed new Head Coach Jack O’Keefe to the team. GRU has competed in 13 NCAA Championships and has two national NCAA titles. In 2010 and 2011, the Jaguars won back-to-back Division I National Championships, becoming the first men’s golf program to repeat as national champions since the 1984-85 Houston Cougars, coached by the legendary Dave Williams.

With FAMU returning, the MEAC now has seven men’s golf teams.

FAMU will play a ten-tournament schedule this season.
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