The Capital Alumni Network (CAN) was founded in 1997^[1] as an association of alumni chapters and clubs serving the Greater Metropolitan Washington, DC area. CAN is a networking organization that coordinates events, runs interalumni sports leagues, and provides a clearinghouse for information of interest to leaders of member clubs. Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...

By December 2000, over 60 alumni groups had joined CAN. Today, CAN counts over 220 alumni chapters and clubs as members. Monthly meetings are held at the George Mason University campus in Arlington, Virginia for representatives to share ideas and to collaborate on events. George Mason University, also known as GMU or simply Mason, is a public university in the United States. ... Arlington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia (which calls itself a commonwealth), directly across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. By an act of Congress July 9, 1846, the area south of the Potomac was returned to Virginia effective in 1847 As of 2000...

CAN sponsors a number of coed sports leagues and tournaments each year, including:

• Softball (Spring/Summer),
• Soccer (Spring/Summer),
• Golf (Tournaments vary)
• Flag Football (Fall/Winter),
• Basketball (Winter), and
• Volleyball (Winter).

The outdoor sports leagues usually play their games on the grounds of the Ellipse on the National Mall. Soft ball is also a sugar stage Softball is a team sport, in which a ball, eleven to twelve inches (or rarely, 16 inches) (28 to 30. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... This article is about the sport. ... An Intramural game of co-ed flag football at the University of Texas at Austin Flag football is a version of American football that is popular across the United States and Europe. ... This article is about the sport. ... Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ... Presidents Park, located in Washington, D.C., includes the White House, a visitor center, Lafayette Square, and the Ellipse. ...

In addition to its sports leagues and its regular meetings of local alumni board officers, CAN also organizes a March Madness basketball viewing party and participates in University Row at the Virginia Gold Cup. Disambiguation: March Madness comes from the phrase Mad as a March Hare. In England, the phrase March Madness may refer to wasteful spending at the end of a budget year. ...

CAN is affiliated with and assists a number of groups relating to education, including Hands on DC, the Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund, and the Capital Alumni Toastmasters.

Although similar in purpose, CAN has no relationship with the Inter-University Capital Alumni Network (ICAN), which was founded in 2002 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

References

1. ^ Originally known as the Washington Intercollegiate Network (WIN), the name was changed to the Capital Intercollegiate Network (CIN) in March 1998 to avoid confusion with another organization already using the first name. The organizational name was permanently changed from CIN to its current form by July 1998.

External links

• Capital Alumni Network (official site)
• March 2004 Washington Post article about CAN March Madness and other events