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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Clovis Community College received a $500,000 donation that volition spell towards its diversion department.
Jami Hamel De La Cerda, laminitis and CEO of Diamond Learning Center, an acquisition instauration for adults with intelligence disabilities, was the 1 who donated the funds for the diversion department.
With the caller funds, Clovis Community plans to adhd caller sports programs, enactment the existent student-athletes, and heighten its aboriginal sports complex.
“It's beauteous tremendous for a schoolhouse astatine our level to person a donation of that size,“ said James Sewell, Clovis Community's athletics director.
“The students person the accidental to instrumentality classes similar everybody other does and besides enactment successful the aforesaid day," said De La Cerda.
De La Cerda and Sewell person a beardown concern that dates backmost to Sewell’s days astatine Fresno State.
“We've ever conscionable truly connected successful presumption of philosophy, vision, and mission,” said Sewell.
When Sewell accepted his relation astatine Clovis Community, De La Cerda recognized the athletics department’s needs and wanted to help.
“They're conscionable trying to marque it and they're doing the champion that they tin with what they have, and we tin springiness them a small spot much to boost it, it's worthy it,” said De La Cerda.
With the donation, the diversion section volition adhd women's volleyball and men's and women's tennis.
“We've been trying to turn for a fig of years now, we've lone got 8 sports programs, truthful we truly privation to beryllium a beardown reflection of our section community," Sewell said.
The caller sports analyzable volition assistance pull imaginable students to proceed their acquisition successful Clovis.
In gratitude for the generous gift, the installation volition beryllium named the ISE Diamond L.I.F.E. Sports Complex.
De La Cerda is simply a ma of 3 boys: 2 are Clovis Community students, and her youngest, Elijah, who has Down syndrome, attends DLC.
Needless to say, she was profoundly moved by the honor.
“It's hard to enactment that successful words due to the fact that galore times our students are benignant of a forgotten population, but I deliberation that's changing, truthful I'm very, precise arrogant to person the transportation and I'm going to beryllium truthful arrogant to locomotion by and spot ISE Diamond L.I.F.E. connected the building,” De La Cerda said.
The sports analyzable is expected to beryllium implicit by 2027.
