In enactment of the wide student-athlete experience, the Youngstown State Department of Intercollegiate Athletics is arrogant to denote the instauration of the Korandovich Family Sports Medicine Center successful Beeghly Center.
This newly-created 3,000-square ft installation is designed to present patient-centered carnal and intelligence wellness attraction done a exemplary of prevention, diagnosis, attraction and rehabilitation. The Korandovich Family Sports Medicine Center volition let the integrated attraction delivered by unit Athletic Trainers, Physical Therapists, Primary Care Team Physicians and Orthopedic Team Physicians.
All of YSU's student-athletes and unit volition payment from the attraction provided successful the facility. Located connected the little level of the Beeghly Center, the Korandovich Family Sports Medicine Center volition chiefly service the wellness attraction needs of YSU's men's and women's basketball, volleyball and swimming/diving programs. Highlighted successful the Korandovich Family Sports Medicine Center are 2 ample plunge pools, functional rehabilitation abstraction and a backstage doc exam room.
Youngstown State University has had a affirmative interaction connected the lives of Lisa and Bob Korandovich and they are precise excited to assistance make a beauteous facility.
"We proudly enactment YSU arsenic a portion of our household past and to enactment the adjacent generations of students," Bob Korandovich said. "Lisa and I grew up connected the Westside of Youngstown. Our grandfathers worked successful the alloy mills, my begetter was a machinist who aft status travelled the satellite repairing and mounting up analyzable machinery. Lisa's begetter earned his instrumentality grade aft serving successful WWII and acceptable up a palmy signifier successful Youngstown. The values that our parents taught us, gave america a household instauration that we person instilled successful our children. Our son, Collin has a machine subject grade with a specialization successful entrepreneurship and virtual world programming. Our daughter, Grace precocious finished her 2nd masters successful retail design."
Executive Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Ron Strollo said the caller Korandovich Family Sports Medicine Center volition connection YSU student-athletes an awesome mounting for retrieve and wellness.
"We are precise grateful for enactment of Lisa and Bob connected helping america creating a state-of-the-art Sports Medicine Center successful Beeghly Center," Strollo said. "It's an country that volition beryllium truthful beneficial to our student-athletes and staff. Our Sports Performance squad of Tory Lindley, Jen Tymkew and others had a imaginativeness for this installation and to spot it travel to fruition acknowledgment to the Korandovich household is amazing."
Korandovich knows what it takes for student-athletes to get a well-rounded acquisition having been a subordinate of the Penguins shot programme from 1982-86. He earned a grade successful Business Administration from Youngstown State successful 1987.
A 1981 Youngstown All-City Series shot subordinate astatine Chaney High School, helium joined Penguins successful the autumn of 1982 arsenic a locomotion on. Playing for Coach Bill Narduzzi, the antiaircraft lineman earned a assistance earlier his inferior twelvemonth successful 1985.
As a junior, helium had a career-high 50 tackles. Of his 50 stops, 22 were solos and including 2 TFLs and a sack. Korandovich had 16 tackles arsenic a elder portion battling done injuries, which gave him a first-hand look astatine the value of student-athlete care.
Following Korandovich's elder season, past first-year Head Coach Jim Tressel helped him prosecute his concern interests by placing him with a summertime internship.
His diversion and concern inheritance yet pb him into a palmy vocation successful the competitory retail vigor manufacture which started successful 1988.
Korandovich is presently the President and proprietor of KOREnergy, Ltd., a privately held concern providing Demand Response Programs to concern and commercialized end-users successful the Ohio/Pennsylvania and West Virginia region, arsenic a subordinate of PJM Interconnection LLC.
He has offered erstwhile enactment to the Athletic Department with 2 endowments.
Created successful 2017, the Athletics Department awards the Robert J. and Lisa A. Korandovich Scholarship endowment to a student-athlete connected the shot squad annually.
Additionally, they created the Robert J. and Lisa A. Korandovich Operating Endowment for Women's Lacrosse. Their daughter, Grace, was a standout Division I Women's Lacrosse student-athlete. Funds from this endowment volition beryllium utilized, but not constricted to, the acquisition of equipment, squad apparel, squad question and the recruiting budget. In 2022, YSU earned a stock of the Mid-American Conference rubric successful conscionable its 2nd play of existence.
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