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The 2012 Partnership Award was given to The Wayne M. Densch Charitable Trust, whose decades-long partnership with UCF has resulted in the renaming of two athletics buildings and the creation of the Wayne Densch Sports Center, home to the UCF football program. A new partnership between the two will become a student-academic center on campus that will provide classroom space, career advisement and tutoring services for UCF 麻豆精品 S檚 student-athletes.
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