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The Gift that Can Shape a Life
For many, playing college sports is a lifelong dream. An athletic scholarship can be the blessing that makes that dream a reality. When you support the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce Athletics Grants-in-Aid, you give a young athlete a remarkable gift—the opportunity to be a student at the University of Notre Dame.
What are Joyce Athletics Grants-in-Aid?
Joyce Athletics Grants-in-Aid are expendable scholarships that provide complete financial support for Notre Dame student-athletes. Donors who make a $40,000 annual, expendable gift fund a student-athlete’s tuition, fees, books, and room and board for one year. A gift of $160,000 would underwrite a student-athlete’s entire career at Notre Dame.
Can I direct my gift to a specific team or athlete?
Your gift to Joyce Athletics Grants-in-Aid can be directed toward a specific athletic team, or it can be unrestricted. It cannot be designated for a particular student-athlete.
Why is my gift necessary?
Most of our outstanding student-athletes would not have been able to attend Notre Dame without financial assistance; indeed competitive financial aid packages play an indisputable role in securing our brightest and most talented recruits.
Yet less than 10 percent of Notre Dame’s athletic scholarships are endowed. Thus the athletics department relies mostly on expendable dollars like Joyce Athletics Grants-in-Aid to fund student-athletes.
To learn more about how you can support the Joyce Athletics Grants-in Aid, please contact:
The Man Who Shaped College Sports
In 2003, Notre Dame mourned the loss of Father Ned Joyce, the executive vice president emeritus who, with then-president Father Ted Hesburgh, guided the University in an era of unprecedented progress and made it a model of academic and athletic excellence.
Fr. Joyce’s passion for academics and athletics continues to bless the University—it is because of him that the compound noun “student-athlete” is taken so seriously at Notre Dame. His significant personal contributions to both the NCAA and the College Football Association changed college sports forever.
He was a national spokesman for academic integrity in intercollegiate sports long before the issue was in the national spotlight. He made sure that Notre Dame’s graduation rate for athletes was among the highest in the country.
For 35 years, Fr. Joyce built Notre Dame from a dream into the model it has become. Now Joyce Athletics Grants-in-Aid enable friends of the University to carry on his good work. This elite group of donors recognizes Fr. Joyce’s dedication to the student-athletes of Our Lady’s University, and by sustaining his legacy, continues to shape their lives.
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