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Archdeacon: Ex-swimmer dives in to save WSU program

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Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News

by Tom Archdeacon

According to a former Wright State University swimmer who is now an international business director for a company that manufactures medical equipment, a “large donor” has emerged and could help raise the funds needed to save the targeted WSU swimming and diving program for the coming season.

“Our goal was to raise $85,000 by June 30 to keep the program running and yesterday we had approximately $45,000 of that when a large donor challenged other parents to raise $20,000 and then he would match it. And that would get us there,” Rafael Candido, a WSU swimmer in the 1990s who now works for Capsa Healthcare, said by phone early Thursday morning while on a business trip to London.

“In one day’s time we’ve talked to several people and been able to raise $9,000 of that $20,000.