The 11th Annual Dog’s Breakfast featuring guest speaker, and CFL hall-of-famer, Damon Allen is right around the corner. I caught up with this year’s Chair, Mike Gartner, for a quick update on ticket sales for the event on April 28th.
“Ticket sales are going strong and we’ve once again had great commitment by the Saskatchewan community to make this year a success,” Gartner said regarding the final push for ticket sales. “With Easter and spring break coming up, we’re really pushing to have all those who have confirmed seats and tables purchase their tickets.”
Gartner mentioned that the upcoming holidays are pushing the Foundation’s preparation back a week early. He urged me to mention that anyone interested in buying a table, or individual tickets, please do so by this Friday, April 15, to help out the team that is working hard to finalize preparation.
Agenda
The Breakfast agenda is set and guests have been confirmed. There will be a star-studded cast on hand at Prairieland Park, including many former Huskies now playing in the CFL. And of course, Damon Allen will be available after the breakfast to sign autographs for the kids and those with the kid still inside of them. More information regarding the breakfast agenda, VIP guests and fan opportunities will follow in Thursday’s post.
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With the lead up to the 11th Dog’s Breakfast building, I managed to sit down with Head Coach Brian Towriss for a quick chat about scholarships and the highly competitive nature of recruiting.
“From 10 years ago until now, we were dealing with about $45,000 made up mostly of alumni and family donations,” said Towriss of the changing atmosphere in CIS recruiting. “Now, most schools have a full scholarship program of at least 31 full
scholarships and we are able to pay up to our full cap. 51 guys on the team received scholarships in some form last year.”
As a player I experience first hand the important role that scholarships play in allowing us to be student athletes. Due to the number of hours of training in the off-season and practice during the year, it is a struggle financially because of the limited time players have to work and earn money. The scholarships help to ease the financial burden of being a student athlete and mean more to families then to the players themselves.
“If it weren’t for the Dog’s Breakfast, we would be about $100,000 short in our scholarship commitments per year and we would not be able to keep up in terms of the talent,” Coach Towriss said of translating scholarships to success on the field.
Being able to recruit three or four top prospects in the CanWest that can plug in and play right away is huge for maintaining the competitive level of the our program. With that said, the guys who come to the Huskies to develop are able to because the scholarship money helps to take care of the financial aspect of year round training.
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