Fleet Feet Sports Greenville, ASICS, and Furman University wants to help kids stay on track at school! Fleet Feet Greenville

More than 100 individuals, families, organizations, and businesses have sponsored 125 children at Monaview Elementary School in Greenville by donating $25 for each child.

Each $25 donation has purchased a pair of ASICS shoes, an ASICS shirt, and entry into the Blue Shoes Track Meet at Furman University on April 12, 2008.

These local school children are all on the free or reduced school lunch program.  In other words, they cannot even afford an inexpensive school lunch, much less the opportunity to be involved in a sport as wonderful as running.

Fleet Feet associates will be delivering all of the product to Monaview Elementary on Monday, April 7th at 1:30PM.  Fifty (50) of the sponsored children will be on hand to receive their gear.  This is a great story of how our community has pulled together and given back to these local children!  Please join us on Monday.

Furman’s Bridges Awarded SoCon Postgraduate Scholarship
Senior runner one of two Paladins honored

March 27, 2008

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Southern Conference today named Furman cross country and track and field athlete Page Bridges the recipient of one of the league’s six postgraduate scholarships for the 2007-08 academic year.

Bridges, who was awarded the David Knight Graduate Scholarship, was joined among the six honorees by Paladin football wide receiver Joe Watson, who captured the league’s Bob McCloskey Insurance Graduate Scholarship. Furman’s two recipients were the most by any school and marked the second consecutive year Paladin student-athletes have captured multiple league scholarships.

A native of Greenville, S.C., Bridges accumulated a 3.978 grade point average while majoring in Chemistry. A member of Furman’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Bridges also served as the service chair of the Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society and has been included in the Furman Dean’s List each year from 2004-08.

Bridges has made significant achievements as a runner in addition to her academic exploits, highlighted by setting the school record in the 3000-meter steeplechase during the 2007 track season.

Bridges was also recently awarded a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship. She plans to pursue an M.D./Ph.D. degree in medical school at the University of North Carolina, giving her the ability to continue with medical research and lab experiments while also working as a physician.

Rebekah Potts '04 is completing an M.D./Ph.D. degree at UNC Chapel Hill and waa recently awarded a prestigious NIH training Fellowship.  She graduated Furman with a perfect 4.0, winning both the Scholarship Cup and Donaldson Watkins Awards, was captain of the cross-country team at Furman and won two NCAA Graduate Fellowships.  She was also a Beckman Scholar and has publications resulting from her research at Furman as well as her editorial in the attached link.  

Rebekah routinely returns to campus to assist with the track program and remains very engaged in campus activity, progress on the new science building, etc.

    http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdf/10.2217/17460913.3.2.119