May 7, 2015
ATLANTA – The Fellowship of Christian Athletes Ministry at Georgia Tech received a $50,000 gift in recognition of Team Georgia Tech’s first-place finish at last week’s Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge charity golf tournament. The Tech duo of head football coach Paul Johnson and former basketball star Jon Barry earned a total of $100,000 in winnings, which the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl will split between the FCA and an endowed scholarship at Georgia Tech.
“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.”
The FCA Ministry at Georgia Tech serves the student-athletes, coaches, staff and administrators of the Athletic Association on the campus of Georgia Tech. In addition to the day-to-day ministry presence helping student-athletes deal with the unique pressures of being a Division I athlete at a school with such rigorous academic requirements, FCA staff demonstrates the servant leadership model of Christ to our constituency encouraging those under our influence to do the same. FCA also provides student-athletes the opportunity for international experiences through its GT Serves international service trips. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes’ vision is to see the world impacted for Jesus Christ through the influence of coaches and athletes.
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.
