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MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - UC Merced marked 2 afloat decades arsenic a field with a nighttime of nutrient trucks, soccer, and a $5 cardinal acquisition Friday night.
The nighttime marked the 20th day of UC Merced welcoming its archetypal undergraduate students to the campus.
In celebrating the past, the schoolhouse besides celebrated its contiguous and aboriginal arsenic well, with the nighttime besides marking the women's shot team's archetypal location crippled since Bobcat Athletics precocious to NCAA Division II.
At halftime, Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz announced a "transformative" $5 cardinal dollar acquisition from the Campos Foundation, 1 of UC Merced's astir dedicated supporters and partners.
“The Campos Foundation’s ngo is to elevate underrepresented number and pistillate students done STEM acquisition initiatives," said Deanna Campos-Miller, the president of the Campos Foundation. "We are delighted to spouse with UC Merced successful supporting aboriginal generations of technological and engineering leaders arsenic good arsenic promising scholar-athletes.”
The publication is to assistance money the improvement of a state-of-the-art way and tract facility, which the assemblage volition sanction Campos Field, successful grant of the generous acquisition from the Campos Foundation.
Festivities for the nighttime included a pre-game tailgate featuring nutrient trucks, a student-athlete meet-and-greet, and a Fiat Lux Drone Show to reason the night.
