Men’s soccer team seeks funding

The Utah State University men’s soccer club submitted a request for $8,000 of funding from USU’s Capital and Support fund. The bill passed its first Utah State Student Association Executive Council reading Tuesday and must pass one more reading in order to be approved.

“Getting money from Capital and Support would be huge for our team,” said Andrew Nickerson, the team captain and co-sponsor of the bill. “It is hard to raise that kind of money for such a big trip.”

The team asked for the money to help pay for its trip to Memphis, Tennessee, where it will play in the NIRSA National Soccer Tournament. The tournament begins Thursday and the championship match will be Saturday. The bill, which is titled ECB 2015-08, states the estimated cost of the tournament will be $15,700 for the team.

“It’s great opportunity to get Utah State’s name out there,” said Dallin Laird, who co-sponsored the bill and serves on the executive council as the athletics and campus recreation vice president. “We have helped out the baseball team and women’s rugby in the past. I feel like the soccer team deserves it.”

The Capital and Support fund, established in 1991, exists to give one-time funding to students or organizations at Utah State that have exhausted all other funding. Any request for funding from Capital and Support needs two sponsors to become a bill and must pass two council readings to be approved said Doug Fiefia, student body president.

In this case the second council reading will occur at the executive council meeting this evening. The team plans to leave tomorrow for the tournament.

— kalen.s.taylor@aggiemail.usu.edu

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