HOW WE USE YOUR GIFT
Since 2005, Marquette student-athletes have competed in the Big East – the nation’s largest and one of its most competitive Division 1-A athletic conferences. Big East teams have won 25 national championships in six different sports and 125 individual national titles.
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.
When you support the Blue & Gold Fund, you provide partial to full athletic scholarships for Marquette’s student-athletes. Scholarship support pays for their tuition and academic expenses, not athletic department expenses.
The NCAA permits Marquette to offer the equivalent of 110 full athletic scholarships. So far, Marquette has not reached its potential for providing the maximum aid to our student-athletes. In 2004 we offered the equivalent of 70 full scholarships; in 2008, 90 scholarships.
YOU can help close the gap and be a champion for Marquette student-athletes by supporting the Blue & Gold Athletic Scholarship Fund. Marquette student-athletes have proven to be champions, as well.
Champions in Competition
- Marquette’s first Big East championship was the 2008 golf title.
- The women’s basketball team won the 2008 National Invitational Tournament.
- Ten varsity sports have qualified for NCAA postseason competition as teams or individual participants.
Champions in the Classroom
- More than half of Marquette student-athletes, 117, were named to the 2007-08 Big East All-Academic Team.
- Academically, 11 of 14 Marquette athletic teams rank in the top 20 percent nationally.
Champions in Service
- Nearly 90 student-athletes made weekly visits to Lloyd Street School to work in second- to fifth-grade classrooms.
- Marquette student-athletes conducted clothing drives for the homeless and raised money to fight Sanfilippo disease.
- Each team is involved in its own service project.
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