Coughlin is the president of the Capital Alumni Network, an umbrella organization that has about 220 alumni college chapters and 6,000 registered college graduates who have moved to the Washington area. Its 15th annual CAN softball tournament takes place this weekend at the NASA Goddard Softball Field Complex in Greenbelt, and attendees are encouraged to bring school supplies to donate to D.C. Public Schools. Tournament organizers are soliciting sponsors for the event to benefit the CAN Scholarship Fund. How many active members does CAN have? There’s over 1 million college alumni living in the D.C. area who have gone to at least one event through CAN or who stay connected. The number 6,000 is deceiving because for every one registered person, there are at least five or six who aren’t. It’s a pretty good demographic. We’ve got 72 softball teams of 45 people in our softball sports week tournament in two weeks.
Sports week? We do sports weeks — softball, flag football, basketball, volleyball, soccer — and we do them well. We started about 15 years ago with five teams for softball and it spiraled. Now 2,000 people will come out for the tournament.
