In 2025 we started the Lally Leadership Awards giving out $5,000 at each home football game to a student group raising money for local charities. This year, we are excited to announce that the student-run team behind 🍊Otto the Orange🍊, has been selected as the year-long recipient of The Lally Foundation’s Leadership Award!
Otto will receive $5,000 for each of SU football’s six home games for a total of $30,000!
Team Otto will use the award to purchase Otto plushies, Syracuse hats and other SU swag from Manny’s on Marshall Street for children at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital. Before every football home game, Otto will visit the hospital in the Otto Mobile to deliver another round of toys, hugs and Orange spirit to pediatric patients and their families. The initiative will kick off this Thursday, September 3, when Otto arrives at Golisano in the new Otto Mobile with Coach Fran Brown 🍊who will help Otto distribute gifts before the home opener at the JMA Wireless Dome.
Golisano Pediatrics unit conducts almost 100 surgeries a week so the Otto plushies and other Otto themed gifts will provide comfort for kids during their stay and beyond. Our Ottos bring extraordinary energy and joy to Syracuse and their impact extends far beyond game day 🍊Please join us in giving a big orange hug to the Ottos for their kindness and their desire to spread TLC to children and families in CNY! 🧡
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Home Opener Lally Zone 30 guests will be CHALLENGER BASEBALL! Enjoy the game folks 🧡 Remember if you run a youth sport group/club, school program, charity, or an alumni club and want FREE tickets let us know!!! Tickets are in high demand so request your group tickets asap 😍 Let’s Go 🍊@SyrChallenger@DomCambareri01@HudsonWestPR@CuseFootball
Joey Spallina is still circling the stadium, signing every autograph, shaking every hand, making time for every fan after a loss that ending his college career and his goals for this season. I know it’s just what he does but I am amazed.
Please join us on May 16th for the opening of the Challenger Baseball Field of Dreams 🥰 fill your day with love and happiness @DomCambareri01@SyrChallenger@NeilAdlerSU@Cuse
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Please consider making a donation for SU giving day - your donation (no matter the amount) will help make an immediate impact for our student athletes.
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If you feel you are able to donate to a cause in CNY please consider @BGC_Syracuse ! Lally Foundation is self funded and our mission is to provide FREE access to programs for kids and families - if you have the same passion @BGC_Syracuse needs you! A little goes a long way. Please consider how you can make a difference 🥰 please contact them direct!
Get your free Lally Zone tickets as we have added even more for the home opener!
To kick off the @CuseWLAX season we are donating $10k to the Women’s Lax program and we hope the fans will come out and cheer on our team 🍊
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Last home game of the season and we want to celebrate our students and fellow fans!
This year we launched the Lally Leadership Award 🍊presenting students organizations with $5,000-$10,000 per home game toward their philanthropic community efforts. On Saturday we presented 2 $5k awards to Lambda Chi Alpha & Delta Sigma Pi (with Whitman School). In total this season we awarded over $35,000 to our student charities for their leadership efforts on and off campus. Thank you for all that you do for the Syracuse Community!
On Saturday in honor of MOvember we packed the Lally Zone with our guests from Associated Medical Professional Urology and Radiology Center in CNY. AMP is a center of excellence for Men’s health tackling the leading causes of disease and death for men in our community. Thank you for offering excellent care for all the men in our lives !
This season the Lally Foundation funded “Ottos Lotto” in the 3rd Quarter giving out hundreds of gift certificates for students who came to the games and cheered their hearts out for our players and their fellow student athletes.
Saturday we recognized one special fan section with the Lally Super Fan in the 4th 🍊 presenting a $1,000 gift certificate to the Orange Crate! Section 129 is at EVERY game bringing the energy supporting our players and our team (especially our Senior Athletes). This group of Orange faithful even brings their brand of excitement to other sports creating a swell of support! Thank you 129! @AllThingsSU@Cusewaterboy2@_JackStonehouse@OrangeCrateBar@CuseFootball@CuseVB@Cuse@SUFalkCollege@WhitmanatSU
This Saturday the Lally Zone will celebrate MOvember by welcoming our guests from the Associated Medical Professional Urology and Radiology Center in CNY. AMP is a center of excellence for Men’s health tackling the leading causes of disease and death for men in our community. MOvember is a time for us all to focus on education, prevention and critical care for the physical and mental health of our friends, brothers, sons, husbands, fathers and all the men in our lives. @CuseFootball@JMAwireless@HudsonWestPR
Please join us in congratulating the following student organizations as the newest recipients of the Lally Leadership Award! On Saturday, during the 3rd quarter each group will receive $5,000 toward their efforts!
🍊 Delta Sigma Pi with Whitman School of Management for their fundraising efforts toward The American Red Cross, Golisano Children’s Hospital and their incredible “We Rise Above The Streets” initiative (empowering people to break the cycle of homelessness and crime in our community). Congrats on your $5,000 award!
🍊 Lambda Chi Alpha and their MOvember fundraiser brings awareness and resources around the health crisis facing men in our community. MOvember helps men fight any stigmas around men’s health, mental health support, and encourages men to break the silence and ask for help or reach out to their brotherhood for support. Congrats on your $5,000 award!
Thank You for being leaders on and off campus! 🧡 @WhitmanatSU@CuseFootball@DSPCuse@Cuse
This Saturday the Lally Zone welcomes our guests the Pop Warner-Youth Football Teams from Baldwinsville & Fulton! Big thanks to @Shue_Box for reaching out to coaches/teams and getting these kids to the game 🍊@CuseFootball@CuseAthletics@JMAwireless LETS GO 🍊
We received an overwhelming amount of inquiries from student groups for our new Lally Leadership program award!!! So many that we decided to honor 2 groups for this weekends Pitt game 🍊 The following student organizations will be awarded $5,000 each for their philanthropic leadership on and off campus! Congratulations!
🍊 SU Sports Management Club and their fundraising for Golisano Children’s Hospital benefiting the Nappi Wellness Institute
🍊Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority for their Backpack Builds and Supplies to Succeed program with Seymour Elementary School.
Let’s join in a big thanks to these students making a difference 🥰 when we recognize them in the 3 quarter this Saturday in the @JMAwireless dome.
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