Endowed Athletic Scholarship Program

Advancing Athletics Through Scholarship Endowment

The success of Marquette athletics has an immeasurable impact upon the vitality and exposure of the university. There is no greater way to invest in the success of Marquette athletics than establishing an endowed athletic scholarship. By endowing an athletic scholarship, you will:

• Create an enduring link between you and the university.
• Provide transformational opportunities for many student-athletes.
• Position the university to financially and competitively meet its athletic potential.
• Address a top priority for Marquette: to build the university's scholarship endowment.

Attracting Champions

Increasing and sustaining scholarship aid is an important priority at Marquette University. Endowed athletic scholarships are essential in order to provide opportunities for student-athletes to achieve their academic and athletic goals.
An endowed scholarship provides a lasting stream of income because Marquette holds the gift in perpetuity, investing in principle and using a portion of the annual return to fund scholarship awards. This provides permanent income scholarship support while increasing the endowment value.
Speaking of value, the importance of endowed athletic scholarship funding is greater than ever. Marquette competes in one of the best athletic conferences in the nation, the BIG EAST. With tougher competition comes a greater challenge to attract the caliber of student-athletes who will be champions in and out of the classroom. The university's ability to attract champions is highly dependent upon the availability of a significant and sustainable scholarship budget.

Closing the Athletic Scholarship Funding Gap

As a member of the BIG EAST conference, Marquette gains national exposure - a powerful marketing tool for attracting academically talented students with an affinity for sports. The NCAA allows Marquette to offer 110 equivalent athletic scholarships based on our 14 intercollegiate sports, but last year we had the funds award only 92.

For the 2008-09 Academic Year...

• The Blue & Gold Athletic Scholarship Fund raised $3.1 million. The Blue & Gold Fund provides current-use scholarships ("one-and-done" resources).
• The Marquette Athletic Scholarship Endowment, valued at more than $3.2 million, provided approximately $160,000 in athletic scholarship aid.
• NCAA provisions allow Marquette athletics to award up to $4.4 million in athletic scholarships.
• Marquette athletics had a $1.14 million funding gap considering the NCAA's provisions for scholarship capacity.

Strategic Objective

Grow Marquette's Athletic Scholarship Endowment

To maximize our full athletic potential and provide academic opportunities to deserving young men and women, we are committed to growing the Marquette Athletic Scholarship Endowment to $20 million by 2017. Thereafter, this endowment will fund approximately $1 million annually (5 percent) in critical athletic scholarship aid.

What Will Be Your Legacy for Marquette Athletics?

Marquette University remains grateful for the visionary support of our current endowed athletic scholarship donors. Their names are forever linked with our proud athletic tradition and the lives of many exceptional student-athletes who are proud to call Marquette their alma mater.

We invite you to consider a tax-deductible, perpetual investment in the future of Marquette athletics and its student-athletes by establishing an endowed athletic scholarship. With a minimum commitment of $50,000 and an initial $10,000 gift, you can establish a named, endowed athletic scholarship. A fully endowed athletic scholarship is currently recognized at $1 million.
Once established, Marquette will select and provide you with the name(s) of the student-athlete(s) who will benefit from your scholarship. The selection will be based upon certain criteria that you determine as preferences:

• Participant in a certain sport.
• Enrollment in a particular college at Marquette.
• Other criteria as agreed upon by Marquette University.

Ways to Establish an Endowed Athletic Scholarship

There are many vehicles you might consider to establish an endowed athletic scholarship:

• A cash gift or other current assets.
• An irrevocable deferred/planned gift.
• A simple bequest.

Once you establish your endowed scholarship, you, friends or family members can make additional gifts, thereby increasing the value and impact of your scholarship in future years.

Recognition Opportunities

• Once established, you can name the endowed athletic scholarship.
• Your scholarship will be recognized in perpetuity on the Hank Raymonds Endowed Athletic Scholarship Wall featured in the Al McGuire Center's Wheeler Walk of Champions.

Current Endowed Athletic Scholarship Funds

(As of January 2010 - listed by the year the fund was established)

• Marquette University General Athletic Scholarship (1977)
• Vincent R. and Mary E. Shiely Memorial Scholarship for Women's Athletics (1978)
• Hank Raymonds Endowment for Olympic Sports (1987)
• Jimmy Halling Memorial Scholarship for Men's Basketball (1991)
• Patrick and Jane (Gramling) Carlin Scholarship for Men's or Women's Soccer (1992)
• Rev. Albert J. DiUlio, S.J., Scholarship for Olympic Sports (1996)
• Dr. Richard J. Kitz Scholarship for Men's Basketball (1996)
• Earl L. and Elaine R. Winkleman Scholarship for a Student-athlete in Business Administration or Nursing (1998)
• Elizabeth Denkewalter Ryberg Scholarship for Track & Field/Cross Country (1999)
• Dr. Robert and Sandy Pavlic Scholarship for Need-based Financial Aid (2000)
• Brian D. Hanley Memorial Scholarship for Men's Basketball (2003)
• Kevin and Sheila Frisinger Scholarship for Men's Basketball (2005)
• James M. Meier Scholarship for Men's Basketball (2005)
• Endowed Scholarship for Track & Field/Cross Country In Honor of James M. Allen (2005)
• The George and Virginia Schneider Charitable Foundation Scholarship for Men's Basketball (2006)
• The George and Virginia Schneider Charitable Foundation Endowment for Athletic Academic Center (2006)
• The George and Virginia Schneider Charitable Foundation Scholarship for Women's Soccer (2006)
• Basketball Alumni Quasi-endowment established by Ralph Amsden '44 for Men's Basketball (2006)
• Stanley and Barbara Andrie Family Scholarship for Men's Basketball (2007)
• Charles and Margaret Hammer Scholarship for Summer Tuition for Student-athletes (2007)
• James H. Wheeler, Jr., and Virginia M. Wheeler Scholarship for Men's and Women's Basketball (2008)
• Ron and Sally Kujawa Family Scholarship for a Student-athlete with Specified Preferences (2008)
• Nancy Noeske, Ph.D., Scholarship for Cheerleaders (2009)
• Dr. Robert and Susan Murray Scholarship for Student-athletes (2009)
• Brian and Laura Brewer Scholarship for Men's or Women's Soccer (2009)
• Marv Swentkofske Memorial Football Scholarship for Student-athletes (2009)
• Endowed Scholarship for Women's Tennis In Honor of Jody Bronson (2010)

Thank you for your support.

WE ARE MARQUETTE!