HOW WE USE YOUR GIFT
The Big East provides both a tremendous opportunity and a formidable challenge. It is crucial that the university have sufficient scholarship resources to support student-athletes in its 14 men's and women's varsity sports.
Gifts to the Blue & Gold Fund provide just such support and can help strengthen Marquette's recruitment and support of top-notch student-athletes.
Of the 16 schools in the Big East Conference, Marquette currently ranks 10th in annual contributions to its athletic scholarship fund. Of even greater concern is the university's shortfall in financial resources necessary to support all of its student-athletes. NCAA legislation allows Marquette to offer 110 athletics scholarships based upon its sponsoring of 14 intercollegiate sports (the NCAA minimum).
But the university currently only has sufficient funding to make available 79 athletics scholarship equivalences, including only 44 individual full-tuition athletics scholarships, although there are more than 200 student-athletes competing for Marquette.
In spite of this current shortfall in scholarship support, Marquette student-athletes excel in both the classroom and on the courts and fields of competition.
Academic Success
Marquette ranks 13th out of all 328 division one schools in the NCAA's new "academic progress" rankings, a measurement of student-athletes' academic success and progress toward graduation. Marquette student-athletes are enrolled in seven of the university's eight undergraduate colleges. They are truly excelling on every corner of campus.
Athletic Success
Some of Marquette's accomplishments are well known to alumni, including the men's basketball team's return to the Final Four in 2003 and 37 overall post-season appearances (ninth among division one schools). Additionally,
- The women's
basketball program has qualified for the NCAA tournament
seven times since 1994.
- In 2003-2004, the Marquette women's basketball program won
22 games and reached the second
round of the NCAA tournament.
- Women's soccer has
qualified for four of the last five NCAA College
Cup tournaments and won Conference
USA Championships in 1999 and 2000. The team, which recorded
a stellar 19-4-1 in the regular season, extended its success
by reaching the third round of the NCAA tournament in 2005.
- Marquette's
cross country and track and field programs are steeped
in tradition and success,
having produced five Olympians, 13 NCAA champions
and 27 All-Americans.
- Women's tennis has qualified for the NCAA Championship three times, as well as sending four doubles teams and three individuals, since 1997.
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