Wildcat Pride Cart

Dear Wildcat Community,

The 2025-26 Athletics season has Central Washington University again, competing on the national stage. From Volleyball competing in their 13^th consecutive NCAA tournament in San Diego, four Indoor Track & Field student-athletes returning as All-Americans from the NCAA championships in Virginia Beach, and Football and Women’s Basketball hosting NCAA regional playoffs here in Ellensburg, more eyes have been on Central than ever before.

This year the Athletic Department’s #GiveCentral project is to replace our Wildcat courtesy vehicle (6-passenger golf cart). Our cart gets used for a variety of tasks, including touring recruits and their family on official campus visits; transporting donors, dignitaries, and other supporters in and around campus on game days and campus visits; hauling various equipment to and from practice and events; and transporting baseball and softball umpires to and from their locker room in Nicholson to their respective field before, between, and after games. On groomed fairways and golf cart paths I am sure it would have held up pretty good, but our cart has been used in many other ways and on uneven terrain over the last 10 years. Therefore, our goal is to raise $13,000 to replace our cart with one that will withstand our many uses and the terrain on our campus – one that will represent our department and university in a manner that evokes pride.

Because of generous challenge gifts, we are only looking for you – members of our Wildcat community – to help us raise $5,000 of the $13,000 total from today, April 6, to 11:59 p.m. PT on April 23.

To make your gift now, please click the “Give Now” button on this page. To stay up-to-date on our fundraising progress and to ensure you don’t miss the fun content we have planned, make sure to follow our @CWUAthletics social media accounts and share this #GiveCentral project with your network.

If you have any questions about this project or your donation, please contact Serenity Steward at (509) 963-1479 or Serenity.Steward@cwu.edu.

Let’s drive into this new era of Wildcat Athletics together.

Go Cats!

Dennis Francois

Director of Athletics

Central Washington University