The Wolfpacker: An Independent Magazine Covering NC State Sports
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JULY/AUGUST 2022 ■ 7 ■ WOLFPACK CLUB NEWS Etch Your Name Into Wolfpack History One Brick At A Time 1. Orders will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis. You will receive a confirmation email within 30 days of your order. Please review it carefully. If you do not receive a confirmation email or a correction is necessary, please notify us at majorgi•s@wolfpackclub.com or at 919-865-1500. 2. In order for the Wolfpack Club to accommodate requests for bricks to be placed next to each other, the orders must be submitted together with proper instructions. Every effort will be made to accomodate these requests. 3. All text will be a standard size, font, and style. Greek letters and other symbols not found on a standard keyboard may not be used. 4. Messages will be centered automatically. 'e use of upper and lower case lettering is permitted. All spaces and punctuation marks count as a character. 5. 'e Wolfpack Club reserves the right to exclude orders that it deems to contain inappropriate language. 6. 'e Wolfpack Club will determine the final placement of all bricks. Help fulfill the vision by leaving your legacy etched on a brick on the north plaza walkway connecting the PNC Arena and Carter-Finley Stadium. Ordering Instructions: To order please contact us at majorgi€s@wolfpackclub.com or 919-865-1500. brick flyer for wolfpacker.indd 1 8/21/2018 11:03:30 AM Tom Livolsi's NC State fandom is so serious that it prompted him to recently move. Livolsi liked his old house, but there was one problem. His address was technically in Chapel Hill, even though he was not truly located there. After months went by, Livolsi decided he could no longer stand to write the base town of UNC's campus on his ad - dress anymore. Livolsi's devotion to Wolfpack athletics runs deep. "It has been one of the most impactful re- lationships of my life," Livolsi acknowledged. The roots date back to the 1983 NCAA men's basketball championship for the Pack. His uncle Kevin, who Livolsi noted was "ev- erything to me," graduated from NC State that year. Uncle Kevin introduced his nephew to NC State with commemorative Coke cans and newspaper clippings celebrating the Pack's title. "Even back then, I knew what embodied NC State fans and the culture," Livolsi re - membered. "It was just different. It was something like a fighter, some type of fighting, scrappy, crawling, or like Dave Doeren said, a 'hands in the dirt' type place." In 1987, Livolsi moved from New York to Raleigh, and he was teased by classmates for his strong accent. Surrounded by Duke and UNC fans in class and alone as a diehard New York Yankees follower amongst those cheering for the Atlanta Braves, Livolsi remembered watching NC State win the ACC Tournament that year. Coming from a pro sports town, seeing that event on Friday at school with the old televisions wheeled into class was his first introduction to the collegiate sports atmosphere. "That is when I said, 'NC State is my crowd. These are my people,'" Livolsi declared. Over time, Livolsi become obsessive to the point that he named his son Carter, after Carter-Finley Stadium. He also has a daughter, Reese. Livolsi even once arm-wrestled someone at Applebee's on Hillsborough Street to get a nosebleed ticket for head coach Chuck Am - ato and quarterback Philip Rivers' first game at Carter-Finley Stadium in 2000. "It's borderline psychotic," Livolsi joked. That passion only naturally led Livolsi, who is president and partner of Collaborative Technology Solutions, LLC and co-founder of Gopher Inc., to becoming a member of the Wolfpack Club. "I love it," Livolsi said. "I do feel like I am able to contribute, make some type of dif - ference." "There's a myth that you cannot be part of the Wolfpack Club if you don't have hun- dreds of thousands of dollars," Livolsi added. "That's just not true. Being part of the Wolf- pack Club is like a family inside a family. It's a very supportive group. … The connections and relationships are real." Livolsi partners with NC State sophomore guard Terquavion Smith in the ImPack program re- cently started by the Wolfpack Club. "That's really an awesome program," Livolsi said. Livolsi furthered his commitment to NC State athlet- ics with his active involvement in supporting various name, image and likeness opportunities. "Being an NC State fan just aligns with who I am as a person," he concluded. WPC DONOR SPOTLIGHT Tom Livolsi Livolsi, shown here with son Carter and daughter Reese, has been a passionate follower of NC State athletics since the 1980s. PHOTO COURTESY TOM LIVOLSI