Chaminade University of Honolulu last month announced receiving $500,000 in major gifts which will go toward the building of a new coaches’ office complex, one phase in the development of the school’s new intercollegiate athletics facilities.
The donation includes $300,000 from longtime Chaminade supporters including two members of its board of regents. The donors are board member Carolyn A. Berry Wilson and her husband Capt. David G. Wilson, and the university’s new board chairman, Vaughn G.A. Vasconcellos.
Private foundations donated the remaining $200,000.
The women’s volleyball coach’s office will be named after Vasconcellos, and the men’s basketball coach’s office will be named after the Wilsons. Construction for the office complex will begin this summer and is slated for completion in December.
The overall intercollegiate athletics facilities project will include fully equipped locker rooms and training amenities on the lower campus.
Chaminade president Marianist Brother Bernard J. Ploeger called the athletic facilities “long overdue.”
“They will help us build a richer campus life for all of our students, faculty and staff for many years to come,” he said in a news release.
Chaminade athletics director William Villa said the new facilities will “serve as a home away from home for our student athletes, coaches and greater campus community as we continue to grow our Silverswords’ athletics tradition.”
