Washington State announced Wednesday that Bellevue-based booster Glenn Osterhout has donated $250,000 to the WSU athletic department to rename a room in the football operations building in former linebacker Steve Gleason’s honor.
Osterhout, who graduated from WSU in 1983 and currently sits on the WSU Board of Trustees, asked that the recruiting center on the fifth floor of the football operations building be renamed the Steve Gleason Recruiting Suite.
Gleason was an all-conference linebacker for WSU from 1996-99 who signed with the Indianapolis Colts as a free agent in 2000, and went on to make a name for himself as a safety with the New Orleans Saints before his career was abruptly cut short in 2011 by a diagnosis of ALS.