ESPN broadcaster Colin Cowherd will return to Eastern Washington University in April to serve as host of the 29th Annual Orland Killin Dinner, Dance and Auction, and has also pledged his support of the "Red Turf" project at EWU's Woodward Field.
Cowherd attended Eastern from 1982-86 before embarking on a more than 20-year professional broadcasting career. He was sports director of Eastern's on-campus radio station, and was a broadcaster for a variety of Eastern athletic events on both radio and television during Eastern's transition to NCAA Division I. He is formerly from the coastal town of Grayland, Wash., and graduated from Ocosta (Wash.) High School in 1982 where he was an All-Far West Conference guard in basketball.
He has pledged $50,000 toward the previously-announced addition of red synthetic turf at EWU's Woodward Field in Cheney, Wash., which will be the first of its kind in the entire country. Michael Roos of the NFL's Tennessee Titans and his wife Katherine pledged the first $500,000 toward the unique project. The Killin Dinner, Dance and Auction is presented annually by the Michael Roos Foundation, and Roos will also be on hand for the events taking place April 23-24.
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