Texas Football: 3 huge COVID-19 relief efforts from Longhorns
2. Sam Ehlinger‘s GoFundMe
To-be senior Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger followed in Lawrence’s footsteps with the idea to help out by starting a COVID-19 relief fundraiser on GoFundMe. While Lawrence has strayed to a different path to collect donations and help out, Ehlinger’s GoFundMe page is really picking up a lot of steam in terms of total donations.
Texas QB Sam Ehlinger's coronavirus fundraiser has crossed $75,000. It's got 616 donors and counting. https://t.co/Lqa8RtJjke
— Brian Davis (@BDavisUT) April 5, 2020
Late last week, Ehlinger’s GoFundMe page eclipsed $75,000 in donations. Up to this point, it has now has more than $82,000 (as of the afternoon of April 7). The page now has 658 donors and followers, and 3,600 shares.
We’ve raised over $60,000 in 6 days with over 550 donors. I want to challenge everybody to continue to share this GoFundMe and come together to raise as much money as possible. Link below: pic.twitter.com/7Njg1uBb1Q
— Sam Ehlinger (@sehlinger3) April 2, 2020
The efforts of Ehlinger to build up this GoFundMe page is still continuing on his Twitter page. He’s getting more and more donations by day. He originally set a goal of raising $1 million. And he originally cited Marissa Mowry and Lawrence for the idea of starting this fundraiser page.
Please share with friends and family and let’s raise $1,000,000 for COVID-19 Relief. Shoutout @Trevorlawrencee and his girlfriend, Marissa, for setting a great example with their fundraising platform. Link to donate and share is in my bio and attached below. pic.twitter.com/lEN3FSkQXi
— Sam Ehlinger (@sehlinger3) March 27, 2020
In one of the posts on Herman’s Twitter timeline, it showed Ehlinger helping out with some of the community donation efforts too. Reading all the positive notes and comments on Ehlinger’s page is great and should keep the momentum going of his growing donations.