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Key, Johnson, Gailey All Set to Compete in Peach Bowl Challenge – Football — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Key, Johnson, Gailey All Set to Compete in Peach Bowl Challenge – Football — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Greensboro, Ga. Georgia Tech football head coach Brent Key and former Tech head coaches Paul Johnson and Chan Gailey will represent the Yellow Jackets in the 17th annual Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge charity golf tournament held April 28 – 30 at Reynolds Lake Oconee outside of Atlanta. A field of 23 current and former college football coaches will compete for a share of a $300,000 charity purse.

The nation’s premier collegiate coach golf event will be played in two-man scramble format in an 18-hole tournament. The Stableford scoring system will be used to help balance handicaps and encourage aggressive play.

Proceeds from the competition benefit charitable foundations selected by the coaches. Coach Key’s winnings will go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which is the leading global organization harnessing the power of research, advocacy and community engagement to advance life-changing breakthroughs for type 1 diabetes (T1D). Coach Johnson and Coach Gailey will play for the Paul and Susan Johnson Family Foundation and Fellowship of Christian Athletes- Georgia Region, respectively.

Since its creation in 2007, the event has contributed a total of $9.3 million in scholarship and charity, helping make the Peach Bowl college football’s most charitable bowl organization.

The current field of competitors for this year’s Peach Bowl Challenge is projected to include:

COACH CURRENT OR FORMER FBS SCHOOL(S) CHARITY
Shane Beamer South Carolina The Beamer Family Foundation
Manny Diaz Duke Durham Public Schools Foundation
Dave Doeren NC State One Pack Empowered
Eliah Drinkwitz Mizzou CarePortal
Randy Edsall Maryland, UConn Edsall Family Foundation
P.J. Fleck Minnesota Row the Boat @ Masonic Children’s Hospital
Hugh Freeze Auburn For Others Collective
Chan Gailey Georgia Tech Fellowship of Christian Athletes- Georgia Region
Jim Grobe Ohio, Wake Forest, Baylor Fisher DeBerry Foundation
Paul Johnson Navy, Georgia Tech Paul and Susan Johnson Family Foundation
Brent Key Georgia Tech Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Dan Lanning Oregon OHSU Foundation- Knight Cancer Institute
Urban Meyer Bowling Green, Utah, Florida, Ohio State Urban And Shelley Meyer Family Foundation
Jeff Monken Army Lauren’s First and Goal
Dan Mullen Mississippi State, Florida Mullen Family 36 Foundation
Pat Narduzzi Pitt UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Rick Neuheisel Colorado, Washington, UCLA Lord Wedgwood Charity
Mike Norvell Florida State Keep Climbing Family Foundation
Houston Nutt Boise State, Arkansas, Ole…

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