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Marquette University Endowed Athletic Scholarship Program
Advancing AthleticsThrough Scholarship Endowment
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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:
Advancing Create an enduring link between you
Athletics
and the university.
Through Scholarship
Provide transformational opportunities for many student-athletes.
Endowment Position the university to financially and competitively meet its athletic potential.
Address a top priority for Marquette: to build the university’s scholarship endowment.
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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 the principal and using a portion of the annual return to fund scholarship awards. This provides permanent income for scholarship support while increasing the endowment value.
Attracting Champions
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
The Importance of the Marquette Athletic Scholarship Endowment
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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.
For the 2008-09 academic year ...
Closing the Athletic Scholarship Funding Gap
The Blue & Gold Athletic Scholarship Fund raised $3.1 million . The Blue & Gold Fund provides
As a member of the BIG EAST conference,
current-use scholarships
Marquette gains national exposure — a powerful
(“one-and-done” resources).
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 to award only 92.
The Marquette Athletic Scholarship Endowment, valued at more than $3.2 million, provided approximately
MILLIONS
$160,000 in athletic scholarship aid.
$ 4.5 $ 1.14
$ 4.4
NCAA provisions allow Marquette athletics to award up to
$ 3.5
$4.4 million in athletic scholarships.
$ 3.26 $ 2.5
Marquette athletics had a $1.14 million funding gap considering the NCAA’s provisions for scholarship capacity.
$ 1.5 FY 2009 BLUE & GOLD FUNDS RAISED PLUS ENDOWMENT PROCEEDS
ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP FUNDING GAP
FY 2009 NCAA SCHOLARSHIP CAPACITY
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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 Thereafter, this endowment will fund approximately $1
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$20 million by 2017.
MILLION annually (5 percent) in critical athletic scholarship aid.
By the Numbers
To appreciate our scholarship challenge, consider the following information ...
Average Undergraduate Tuition & Costs, 2010 -11 Academic Year
Enrollment of Marquette’s 207 Student-athletes by College (Sept. 2009) Klingler College of Arts and Sciences
Tuition
$ 3 0,0 4 0
Room & Board
$
9,890
Books
$
900
College of Health Sciences
Fees
$
422
College of Engineering
Estimated Total
$ 41, 2 5 2
College of Business Administration Diederich College of Communication
College of Education College of Nursing College of Professional Studies
Marquette Student-athlete
FACTS Marquette student-athletes boast a
graduation rate of 93%.
54 43 36 34 23 12 3 2
26% 21% 17% 16% 11% 6% 2% 1%
Each year since joining the
The average GPA
Marquette has produced
BIG EAST, more than 51%
for Marquette
36 Academic
of Marquette student-athletes
student-athletes
All-Americans
have earned Academic
in the spring semester
since 1976.
All-Conference
of 2009 was 3.11.
honors.
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Student-Athlete Profile A native of Saskatchewan, Canada, Jayne is the recipient of Marquette’s James M. Allen Endowed Athletic Scholarship and Blue & Gold and Ignatian scholarships. She chose Marquette because of its excellent athletic and academic programs and credits her scholarship for helping to make her Marquette experience possible:
“I have time to concentrate on my studies without the financial burden. I also have the opportunity to compete at a very high level in the rapidly growing world of women’s collegiate athletics — sometimes even against Olympic hopefuls.” Jayne has made an impact at Marquette as one of the top 10 all-time women’s outdoor track and field athletes for the 1500-, 3000- and the 5000-meter events — holding the record
Greb
Jayne GREBINSKI
for the last. Besides track, Jayne tests her resolve in the classroom. After graduating third in her high school class, she has consistently made the dean’s list at Marquette and is a member of Beta Alpha Psi (a financial information honor society). Acknowledging Marquette’s excellent
Senior accounting and international business student Jayne Grebinski stays the
business program in advancing her professional goals, Jayne has secured an internship at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in New York. As for the next leg of the race, Jayne says, “I plan to take
course when it comes to
the CPA exam after graduation and hopefully work for a Big
Marquette academics,
Four accounting firm. I would like to coach high school girls
cross country, and track and field.
and help them grasp their dreams of running at the collegiate level. I believe this will help them reach their potential in all aspects of life. As for me, I will always run. It is such a big part of who I am. I don’t think I’ll ever stop.”
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Endowed Athletic Scholarship Donor Profile Jim MEIER
Jim made the fund happen through a $150,000 pledge. In the process, he helped make a Marquette education possible for three student-athletes who, in turn, have received the opportunity to make Marquette basketball fans proud. Jim was neither a student-athlete nor a scholarship recipient while working on his accounting major at Marquette. Why did he establish his scholarship?
“I did it for myself because it’s the right thing to do. I did it for the benefit of student-athletes and the university because it’s critical to their success. Jim explains, “My parents very generously supported my Marquette education, which has greatly benefitted my life and my career. I always knew there would be the right time and place to pass some of that benefit to someone else.” Jim chose to restrict his endowed scholarship specifically
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to athletics because “college athletics brings a lot to Marquette — the opportunity for student-athletes to
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compete and the thrill of competition for the university’s
Marquette business alumnus
students, alumni and Milwaukee to celebrate.” Jim adds:
established the James M. Meier Endowed Scholarship Fund
“Marquette alumni don’t come back to campus to retake freshman history. They “do” come back to enjoy a BIG EAST match up!”
for Men’s Basketball. Though freshman history “is” important, so is the enduring impact that Jim will have on Marquette men’s basketball — now and for future generations of studentathletes, students, alumni and fans.
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What Will Be Your Legacy for Marquette Athletics? Marquette University remains grateful for the
A fully endowed athletic scholarship is currently
visionary support of our current endowed athletic
recognized at $1 million.
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.
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
We invite you to consider a tax-deductible, perpetual investment in the future of Marquette athletics and its student-athletes by establishing an endowed
preferences: Participant in a certain sport.
athletic scholarship. With a minimum commitment
Enrollment in a particular college at Marquette.
of $50,000 and an initial $10,000 gift, you can
Other criteria as agreed upon by Marquette University.
establish a named, endowed athletic scholarship.
Ways to Establish an Endowed Athletic Scholarship
Recognition Opportunities
There are many vehicles you might consider to establish an endowed
Once established, you can name the endowed
athletic scholarship:
athletic scholarship.
A cash gift or other current assets. An irrevocable deferred/planned gift.
Your scholarship will be recognized in perpetuity on the Hank Raymonds Endowed Athletic Scholarship Wall featured in the Al McGuire Center’s Wheeler Walk
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. 8
of Champions.
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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)
Endowed Scholarship for Track & Field/Cross Country In Honor of
Patrick and Jane (Gramling) Carlin Scholarship for Men’s or Women’s Soccer (1992)
James M. Allen (2005)
Rev. Albert J. DiUlio, S.J., Scholarship for Olympic Sports (1996)
The George and Virginia Schneider Charitable Foundation Scholarship
Dr. Richard J. Kitz Scholarship for Men’s Basketball (1996)
for Men’s Basketball (2006)
Earl L. and Elaine R. Winkleman Scholarship for a Student-athlete in
The George and Virginia Schneider Charitable Foundation Endowment
Business Administration or Nursing (1998)
for Athletic Academic Center (2006)
Elizabeth Denkewalter Ryberg Scholarship for Track &
The George and Virginia Schneider Charitable Foundation Scholarship
Field/Cross Country (1999)
for Women’s Soccer (2006)
Dr. Robert and Sandy Pavlic Scholarship for Need-based
Basketball Alumni Quasi-endowment established by Ralph Amsden ’44
Financial Aid (2000)
for Men’s Basketball (2006)
Brian D. Hanley Memorial Scholarship for Men’s Basketball (2003)
Stanley and Barbara Andrie Family Scholarship for Men’s Basketball (2007)
Kevin and Sheila Frisinger Scholarship for Men’s Basketball (2005)
Charles and Margaret Hammer Scholarship for Summer Tuition for
James M. Meier Scholarship for Men’s Basketball (2005)
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!
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Contact Information To learn more about establishing a named, endowed athletic scholarship, please contact one of the following staff members of the Blue & Gold Fund:
Mark Wright (414) 288-4468 mark.wright@marquette.edu
Paul McInerny (414) 288-0289 paul.mcinerny@marquette.edu
JoeTrue (414) 288-0253 joseph.true@marquette.edu
Jamie Hays Szelc (414) 288-6018
Marquette University Athletics Blue & Gold Athletic Scholarship Fund
jamie.szelc@marquette.edu
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