West Liberty University alumni made the New Year more prosperous when former members of the wrestling team displayed true teamwork in initiating a $1 million legacy gift to strengthen the future of grapplers on the Hilltop.<\/p>\n
“West Liberty’s reputation in the world of college wrestling is well known and I thank these alumni for stepping forward with a plan for the future that guarantees the tradition,” said President Stephen Greiner.<\/p>\n
Former wrestlers Richard Foston, Chris Gibbs, A.J. Monseau, Scott Shipman, Samuel Stewart, Chris Taylor and Wes Watson have all purchased life insurance policies that designate WLU as the beneficiary.<\/p>\n
“Our alumni are leading the way by taking the step and will inspire others to join the cause and become active in planned giving. I am grateful for their leadership and commitment to West Liberty University’s future,” said WLU Foundation Executive Director Angie Zambito-Hill.<\/p>\n
“The life insurance project was kicked off two years ago through the efforts of our wrestling board and seen as a long term goal for the program. The commitment from these alumni is amazing and speaks highly of our program. We won’t stop at the $550,000 already secured by these alumni, the objective is to reach $1 million by the end of 2019,” said Mitch Smith, head wrestling coach.<\/p>\n
“It’s amazing generosity. This million-dollar gift will endow a fund for the future of WLU Wrestling,” said Zambito-Hill, noting that 90 percent of the Foundation’s $16 million endowment is the result of planned giving or gifts that are deferred till a later date.<\/p>\n
Alumni and others who make provisions for the WLU Foundation in their wills or devise other estate-planning arrangements are recognized by a formal listing in the Nathan Shotwell Society, named after the school’s founding president. Currently there are 151 members in this prestigious group.<\/p>\n
Pursuing excellence since its inception in 1962, the West Liberty University wrestling program has produced 93 NAIA and NCAA Division II All-Americans and eight individual national champions. That success has been matched in the classroom where the Hilltoppers have received an even more impressive 102 NWCA National All-Academic citations. For complete details on Hilltoppers Athletics, please visit hilltoppersports.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more information on giving to WLU, please visit WLUFoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post West Liberty Wrestlers Build Legacy Through Life Insurance<\/a> appeared first on InsuranceNewsNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" West Liberty University issued the following news:. West Liberty University alumni made the New Year more prosperous when former members of the wrestling team displayed true teamwork in initiating a $1 million legacy gift to strengthen the future of grapplers on the Hilltop. I am grateful for their leadership and commitment to West Liberty University’s…<\/p>\n The post West Liberty Wrestlers Build Legacy Through Life Insurance<\/a> appeared first on InsuranceNewsNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13505,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503\/revisions\/13505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}