ReseARch Muscle - UW-Milwaukee

pAnTheR pROWl
TAllies big success
By Peppy O’Neill
Photography by
Peter Jakubowski,
Alan Magayne-Roshak ’72
and Vernessa Weatherall ’03
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under sunny skies and refreshingly crisp
weather conditions, 770 intrepid runners
and walkers traversed the UWM campus
and the trails of Upper Lake Park on Sunday
morning, Oct. 15, to raise scholarship dollars for
deserving UWM students at the second annual
Panther Prowl 5-K Run/Walk event.
Organized under the banner of the UWM
Alumni Association, the event raised more
than $150,000 in cash and in-kind products
and services.
In addition to the hundreds of individual striders
who participated, the event attracted more than
30 teams, a new high for the Panther Prowl. Additionally,
scores of alumni volunteered to assist with
the event, along with several campus-based groups,
including members of the university’s varsity
Track and Field, Baseball, Volleyball and Women’s
Basketball teams. Members of the UWM-based
Society of Athletic Training Students and Human
Movement Sciences Graduate Student Association
organizations also assisted with event operations.
US Bank was the presenting sponsor of the
Panther Prowl for the second year. Event chair and
emcee was Chris Francis, sports anchor for CBS-
TV Channel 58, a new sponsor of the event.
Eager runners and walkers can mark their calendars
now for Panther Prowl 2007. It will be held on
Sunday morning, Oct. 14, and will follow the same
certified route through the campus and Upper
Lake Park.
(Editor’s Note: See page 31 for a Panther Prowl
Postscript.)