The La Verne swimming and diving team’s double-dual meet against Redlands and the Masters University on Saturday afternoon at Las Flores Park saw the Leopards struggling to stay afloat.
In honor of Andrew Tompkins, a former University of La Verne diver and business administration major who died of cancer on Sept. 22, the University hosted a celebration of his life Oct. 3 in the Athletics Pavilion.
The University of La Verne swim and dive team hosted a bake sale fundraiser for Andrew Tompkins, a former ULV diver who after he battled and defeated osteosarcoma cancer in 2018, learned recently that the cancer returned, this time as stage IV metastatic osteosarcoma.
The swim and dive teams finished the last of their dual meets Saturday against Caltech. The men’s team lost, 172-72, and the women’s team lost, 173-121.
The University community gathered in the Campus Center ballroom Tuesday to make fleece tie blankets for the Linus Project, a nonprofit organization that donates blankets to families in need and ill children.