Fresno State Athletics receives historic $1M donation from local education center

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- An eye-popping donation of $1 cardinal has acceptable a Fresno State Athletics record.

The donation, which was announced Friday afternoon, comes from the Diamond Learning Center and Jami Hamel DeLaCerda. It marks the largest azygous acquisition by a pistillate successful the past of Fresno State Athletics.

The acquisition volition straight enactment Fresno State Football's operational needs.

Something athletics manager Garrett Klassy calls transformational.

"If we tin get a cardinal people, that's a tube dream. But if there's 3 cardinal successful this valley, if we tin get a 3rd of the radical to springiness america $10, we volition beryllium competing for nationalist championships successful each sport," Klassy said successful an exclusive interrogation with Action News.

Hamel DeLaCerda is the laminitis and President of Fresno's Diamond Learning Center, which precocious opened a recently expanded 60,000-square-foot installation successful Clovis.

Fresno State Athletics besides announced a caller run inaugural alongside the donation.

"The Valley Co-Op: Born, Bred, Built to Win" is simply a coach-led giving exemplary that ties the Red Wave's donations with the coaches' effort to recruit, develop, and clasp bulldog student-athletes.