Miami trustee makes $1 million commitment to athletics

Published Sep. 8, 2015 8:48 a.m. ET

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) Miami's athletic department has received a $1 million commitment from trustee Pete Piechoski, who graduated from the university with an accounting degree in 1976.

Piechoski's gift will support Miami's Student-Athlete Excellence Fund, which provides operational and scholarship support for all Hurricane teams, and its Basketball Victory Fund. Piechoski and his family also have established funds to help Miami's graduate business students, graduate engineering students and those studying abroad.

Piechoski is a former construction executive and currently serves as USA Bobsled and Skeleton's chairman of the board. He says he is ''thrilled to be able to invest in the university that invested in me.''

The commitment is the sixth of $1 million or more for Miami athletics in the last 13 months.