It was a great day of fun, fellowship, and especially golf at this year’s Saint Joseph’s Four Pillars Golf Tournament on Monday, April 16, 2025. With the rain miraculously holding off, twenty-two foursomes played 18 holes at the great course at Centre Hills Country Club and competed for fun golf prizes all to support the Saint Joseph’s Athletic Program. Thank you to all the teams that donated their prize money back in support of the SJCA Athletic Program!

Special thanks are given to the individual and business sponsors, who made the golf outing a great success - especially RE/Max Centre Realty, SEKO MedTec, Swift Kennedy, Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, Mariner Finance, Doty & Hench, State Accounting, Tri-County Oral Facial Surgeons, Duckworth Electric, Saint Francis University, Centre First Bank, Reilly Creppage Inc., Stuckey Automotive, Bellefonte Knights of Columbus, Northwestern Mutual, KBB Realty/Matt Barr and Robertson Family. A special shout out is given to Balfurd Dry Cleaning, Boal City Brewing, and New Trail Brewing for their drink donations.

In addition to the established golf tournament events, the SJCA girls golf team hosted a 50/50 raised funds for new uniforms. Thank you to all who participated in this effort as the girls raised enough to place their uniform order! 

Over $1000 was raised through two basket raffles. The winning ticket for the  “women’s basket” was bought after mass at OLV church. The winning ticket for the “men’s basket” was purchased by a golfer just minutes before the drawing!  Goes to show, anyone can be a winner!

In conjunction with the golf tournament, an online auction was hosted with lots of awesome prizes including tickets for PSU football games, college scholarships, gift cards to local businesses, Taylor Swift fan package, tickets for Hershey Park, a night at the Nittany Lion Inn, tailgating supplies, and individual lessons with our great SJCA coaches.  The auction raised over nearly $15,000. Auction participants should check their email to see if they won any auction prizes.  Be sure to checkout all our auction donors and tell them THANK YOU from Saint Joseph's when you visit their establishments!

Payment for prizes is to be made online through the auction site.  Prizes may be picked up in the Saint Joseph’s school office on Tuesday or Thursdays, 8 AM - 12 PM.

Finally, these events could not be possible without our outstanding school staff and volunteer organizers: Matthew Graham and Sarah Miller (Event Chairs), Shane Himes, Kristen Koshko, Christine Lingle, Michelle Robertson, Kathy Peters, and Akio Ohmoto. Thank you! Thank you also to all the Saint Joseph’s students who volunteered at the event.

Photos of this fun event were posted on social media. Be sure to watch your email for information about next year’s golf tournament and online auction!  If you have any questions or want to be part of the planning of next year’s event, please contact Mr. Matthew Graham at mgraham@sjcacademy.org or Mrs. Sarah Miller at development@sjcacademy.org.  Go WolfPack!