Sun Devil Athletics

Mark E. Smith Managerial Scholarship

Mark E. Smith Managerial Scholarship

Learn more about your impact

Mark E. Smith is a longtime supporter of Sun Devil Athletics. In 2013, he endowed the Mark E. Smith Managerial Scholarship for the baseball program, representing the first scholarship for a student manager at ASU. Your gift fuels this endowment and provides scholarship support for the baseball program's student manager.

Impact of Donor Support

  • The cost for an out-of-state student-athlete to attend ASU for one year is $71,660 on average between tuition, team travel, equipment, sports medicine, food and nutrition and tutoring/academic resources.
  • Arizona State ranked No. 1 in the Pac-12 Conference for the second year in a row in 2023 for Academic Progress Rating which tracks achievement in the classroom year over year ahead of Stanford, Cal, USC and UCLA.
  • Some more metrics that show just how much these hard-working student-athletes have achieved with your support: 3.3 average GPA (fall 2022), 76% of student-athletes received “Scholar Baller” status (3.0 GPA or higher), 110 student-athletes with a 4.0 GPA and 138 Academic All-Americans since 2000, which ranks second in the Pac-12 during that stretch.

Our family believes in giving back and sharing the blessings we have received financially and through our time."

Dave Derminio

’74 BS in business, former ASU golfer who supports student-athletes through the Derminio Family Sun Devil Golf Scholarship

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