Doeren's Squad Wins Peach Bowl Challenge
5/4/2021 5:44:00 PM | Football
Wolfpack head coach earns $20,000 for favorite charity: 321 Coffee
Wolfpack head football coach Dave Doeren teamed with four other current FBS coaches and their legend partners to win $20,000 for his charity of choice at the 2021 Peach Bowl Challenge, which concluded today at Reynolds Lake Oconee outside Atlanta. Doeren, who was partnered with former Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe, and current coaches Shane Beamer (S. Carolina), Manny Diaz (Miami), Randy Edsall (UConn) and Scott Satterfield (Louisville), will support 321 Coffee with his winnings.
The other legends paired with the winning squad were former NC State coach Tom O'Brien, Chan Gailey (GT), Paul Johnson (Navy, GT) and Frank Beamer (VT).
321 Coffee is a nonprofit coffee shop that employs adults with IDD. Its mission is to provide meaningful employment for adults with IDD and to model inclusion for other businesses to follow. Currently, 321 Coffee operates as permanent vendors at the NC State Farmers Market and employs 21 adults, all of whom are paid above minimum wage. Doeren and his wife Sara have supposed the organization in multiple ways over the past several years.
The nation's premier collegiate coach golf event featured a field of 20 current and former college football coaches competing over two days of competition for a share of a $330,000 charity purse. The two-day Tournament was played in Ryder Cup format with Stableford scoring. It included 18-hole Chapman Scotch on Monday, followed by an 18-hole Two Man Scramble on Tuesday, and consisted of two teams of 10 participants that featured pairings of one current coach and one former coach.
The winning 10-man team won with a final score of 385-349 after jumping out to a 179-160 lead after the first day of competition. Doeren and Grobe finished with the best overall score on day two during the Two Man Scramble.
With this year's $330,000 charity purse, the Peach Bowl Challenge has now contributed a total of $8.73 million in scholarship and charity since 2007, helping make Peach Bowl, Inc. college football's most charitable bowl organization.
