W ha t i s t h e F a l c on C lub? The mission of the Falcon Club, the fundraising arm of the BGSU Athletics Department, is to cover the annual cost of student-athlete scholarships through private, philanthropic support. When you invest in the Falcon Club, you ensure the ongoing success and continued tradition of excellence for Falcon Athletics. Your gifts are imperative in allowing us to provide the resources necessary for 425 student-athletes to have a truly world-class experience.
Unlike a restricted, sport-specific gift, every unrestricted membership gift the Falcon Club receives goes directly to fund and enhance scholarship support for all 18 of our athletic programs.
Contributions to the Falcon Club have one general and over-arching purpose: providing our student-athletes with the NCAA allotted amount of scholarship support in every sport we sponsor. This allows BGSU to fully recruit, retain, and field as many scholarship student-athletes as allowed by the NCAA.
Our need is great, but our desire to provide the best possible experience for these student-athletes is greater. The time to take Falcon Athletics to the next level is now, and with your generous support, we can take that next step.
Gifts to the Falcon Club help support our student-athletes’ dreams and aspirations in the classroom, on the field and in the game of life. In general, an unrestricted gift to the Falcon Club will directly impact the lives of these student-athletes.
In the last two full fiscal years, private gifts to Falcon Athletics rose from $2.4 to $2.6 million. Unfortunately, the cost of scholarships alone has risen from $5.5 million just five years ago to a projected $7.1 million in the coming year.
We are proud to recognize that Falcons across the country are accepting this membership challenge in record numbers. But there is still much ground to cover on our way to our ultimate goal of being the most-supported school in the MAC.
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