Miami Named a Top-Five Finalist for NACDA's Community Service Award
6/3/2025 10:12:00 AM | General
OXFORD, Ohio— The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) announced its top five finalists for the 2025 Fiesta Bowl Community Service Award this week, and Miami University was chosen as one of the five.
The award recognizes outstanding community service efforts for NACDA Division I member institutions and highlights athletics departments that have consistently demonstrated qualities of compassion, and service to either one organization or a variety of volunteer activities over the 2024-25 academic year.
Now in its ninth year, this honor spotlights an exceptional athletics department who makes volunteerism and community service a way of life. The winning institution will be one who exemplifies the best in volunteering and demonstrates a responsibility for helping others, thus connecting citizens and addressing community issues. Additionally, the award winner will be a department who makes selfless and extraordinary contributions beyond what is expected of them for the betterment of the local community and beyond.
Miami University student-athletes, coaches and staff invested 5,800 total hours in the community this year. The RedHawks partnered with five Team IMPACT families across four sports, helping children with lifelong and terminal diagnoses connect with Miami teams. The Red and White assisted Habitat for Humanity in building two homes in Oxford for deserving families. Miami Athletics also delivered and read over 600 books to local elementary-schoolers as part of the Reading with the RedHawks initiative. Miami student-athletes partnered with Butler County Metro Parks for clearing paths on local walking trails and worked with RASKALS to assist local seniors in completing home chores like raking leaves and cleaning gutters.
Miami's annual Love.Honor.Care basketball event raised more than $20,000 for cancer awareness and research benefiting Ride Cincinnati in February, while Miami Football brought in over $11,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society as part of its Light the Night campaign. And during the holiday season, the RedHawks raised money for, purchased, collected, wrapped and delivered over 200 Christmas and Hanukkah gifts to Cincinnati Children's Hospital, including items from the popular hockey 'Teddy Bear Toss' event.
NACDA will announce the top three finalists from a group of Arizona, Boston College, California, Miami University and Western Michigan on Friday, June 6. The winner of the 2024-25 Community Service Award will be revealed on Tuesday, June 10. NACDA and its award sponsor, the Fiesta Bowl, will be awarding a trophy to the winning institution in an on-campus presentation during the fall of 2025.
The award recognizes outstanding community service efforts for NACDA Division I member institutions and highlights athletics departments that have consistently demonstrated qualities of compassion, and service to either one organization or a variety of volunteer activities over the 2024-25 academic year.
Now in its ninth year, this honor spotlights an exceptional athletics department who makes volunteerism and community service a way of life. The winning institution will be one who exemplifies the best in volunteering and demonstrates a responsibility for helping others, thus connecting citizens and addressing community issues. Additionally, the award winner will be a department who makes selfless and extraordinary contributions beyond what is expected of them for the betterment of the local community and beyond.
Miami University student-athletes, coaches and staff invested 5,800 total hours in the community this year. The RedHawks partnered with five Team IMPACT families across four sports, helping children with lifelong and terminal diagnoses connect with Miami teams. The Red and White assisted Habitat for Humanity in building two homes in Oxford for deserving families. Miami Athletics also delivered and read over 600 books to local elementary-schoolers as part of the Reading with the RedHawks initiative. Miami student-athletes partnered with Butler County Metro Parks for clearing paths on local walking trails and worked with RASKALS to assist local seniors in completing home chores like raking leaves and cleaning gutters.
Miami's annual Love.Honor.Care basketball event raised more than $20,000 for cancer awareness and research benefiting Ride Cincinnati in February, while Miami Football brought in over $11,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society as part of its Light the Night campaign. And during the holiday season, the RedHawks raised money for, purchased, collected, wrapped and delivered over 200 Christmas and Hanukkah gifts to Cincinnati Children's Hospital, including items from the popular hockey 'Teddy Bear Toss' event.
NACDA will announce the top three finalists from a group of Arizona, Boston College, California, Miami University and Western Michigan on Friday, June 6. The winner of the 2024-25 Community Service Award will be revealed on Tuesday, June 10. NACDA and its award sponsor, the Fiesta Bowl, will be awarding a trophy to the winning institution in an on-campus presentation during the fall of 2025.
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