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Patricia McGuire on growing Trinity Washington University ~\n"We had to get on our feet as an enterprise. We had to get people knowing us, and so two years ago, when I went around looking to build a new science laboratories and nursing laboratories and classrooms, we were able to raise the money to build a new academic building because the sports center was successful. It's amazing how success breeds success."\n\nPatricia McGuire (right) and Andy Ockershausen (left) in studio interview\n\nA Ockershausen:\tThis is Andy Ockershausen, and this is Our Town. Our next guest was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and thank the Good Lord, she came to Our Town in 1970, liked it so much, she said, "I'm gonna stay here." And she's been called a transformer and a superwoman, and she deserves all the accolades. She's expanded academic programs, raised significant amounts of money, built an award-winning, $20,000,000 state of the art athletic center for women and girls, which I find is one of the real jewels of Our Town, and through her leadership as president of Trinity Washington University, they educate more D.C. public school graduates than any other private university in the city, and as a matter of fact, in the nation. \n\tI met Pat McGuire through the Greater Washington Board of Trade where she has a been stalwart member of the board for years, and then she received the Leader of the Year award in 2007. \n\tPat, it's hard to believe that that's 10 years ago, but time goes so fast. But it's only part of her success. Welcome to Pat McGuire. Thank you for being on Our Town.\nPatricia McGuire:\tOh, Andy thank you for having me on Our Town. This is a real treat. I think this show is so important. It should be required listening for all members of Congress so they can know what our town is really all about. Thank you.\nA Ockershausen:\tWell thank you for being on Our Town, and you don't realize how important you are, but we do because we sit back and look at what's going on in Our Town, and to see the impact you have made, and one of the first things I know about when you built that facility that's state of the art, and people photographed ... When we sent the camera crews out and did all that, it was a spectacular thing to do. I don't know if any of the men got anything that night.\nOn Building Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports\nPatricia McGuire:\tWell that's nice of you to say, but you know, Trinity's history is so interesting because we never really had top of the line sports teams, but when I because president, and we were suffering. We were the only women's college left in the region, and we had to decide if we wanted to be a women's college still, if we wanted to exist still. And I said to the board, "If we're going to be a great women's college, we have to great women's sports because Title 9 requires it."\nA Ockershausen:\tTo be competitive.\nPatricia McGuire:\tAnd be competitive. At first the board was like, "Eh. I don't know about that." And then, you might remember, the Board of Trade was working on the 2012 Olympics bid for DC.\nA Ockershausen:\tAbsolutely. Right.\nPatricia McGuire:\tAnd I got mixed up with Board of Trade people working on that. I met the Women's Sport's Foundation, and I went back to the board and said, "You know what? That's right. We're not going to build a gym for five or ten girls. We're going to build the Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports and make it a destination venue around Women's Sports." And that was actually a legacy of the 2012 Olympics movements in D.C. That facility.\nA Ockershausen:\tIt energized you. Did you tell the board it was going to cost $20,000,000?\nPatricia McGuire:\tI did. I did, and they were, by that point, they knew me well enough they weren't shocked. We raised a lot of money around the concept.\nA Ockershausen:\tRight You got to do it.\nBenefits of Building Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports\nPatricia McGuire:\tAnd we got about 40,