Swarthmore College Athletics

Garnet Go Green With Digital Gameday Programs

Gameday Online Programs

By moving our gameday programs to an entirely digital format, Swarthmore Athletics is saving several thousands of sheets of paper each year and attempting to make a positive impact on the environment. We encourage fans to use the all-digital format, but if you would like to print your own copy as a keepsake, you can click the PRINT PDF link on the gameday programs page.

The digital gameday programs look great on a mobile device, automatically scaling text and pictures to an easily viewable size, and offering links to the team's rosters, schedules, stats, coaching staff and previous game played. On the main screen of the program, click on the drop-down arrow to view these links. 

VIEW THE DIGITAL GAMEDAY PROGRAMS PAGE

Garnet Go Green With Solar-Powered Scoreboards

As a four-year member of the varsity women's soccer team, Izzy Branco-Lo '18 knows how much energy goes into sports. From the flood lights that illuminate the field during late-night practices to the buses required for hundreds of road contests, athletic operations can generate a significant carbon footprint.

That's why for her senior engineering project, Branco-Lo, an engineering major from New York, N.Y. and President's Sustainability Research Fellow, developed and implemented a solar panel system for the outdoor scoreboard at Clothier Field Stadium. The system is tied to the utility grid and designed to offset the energy used by the scoreboards in the stadium and the baseball field, as well as LED office light fixtures. She estimates that the panels will produce about 1,100 kilowatt hours (kWh) of energy each year, or roughly 46-days' worth. READ THE REST OF THE STORY HERE

Athletic Dept. Makes Green Move To LED

By: Jasmine Xie

Reduce, reuse, and recycle: the core mantra of that sustainable blue-bin cycle that we have all learned to embrace since childhood. Also, a nice way to summarize the Green Revolving Fund (GRF), a similarly cyclical component of Swarthmore's groundbreaking Carbon Charge Program. The Athletics Department has been selected for some of the Carbon Charge initiative's pilot programming, with several visible projects and exciting changes coming our way.

Currently, the GRF's most obvious projects have been the conversion of energy-guzzling metal halide bulbs to LED lights within the Athletics facilities. This started with the Ware Pool's replacement in 2014, with the most recent installation of LED lights in Lamb-Miller Field House and Tarble Pavilion as a continuation of this long-term project.

While a light bulb switch might seem inconsequential, the effect of converting over 30 types of antiquated fluorescent bulbs to efficient LED lamps is actually enormous. Each LED bulb consumes half the electricity as its halide counterpart, requires less maintenance, and provides a higher intensity of light. In other words, this slashes the utilities budget in half, generates savings that can be funneled into more green energy projects, and actually makes it so that our facilities abide by NCAA lighting standards. Fantastic news for everyone. 

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