Giving to Bearcat Athletics
Fuel the Bearcat Spirit: Support Willamette University Athletics
Why Your Support Matters
Bearcat Athletics plays a vital role in educating the whole student. You help make athletics an extension of the University’s academic mission, reinforcing leadership, discipline, and a commitment to turning knowledge into action.
Bearcat scholar-athletes balance rigorous academics with the demands of NCAA Division III competition. Through your support, they gain the structure, resources, and encouragement needed to grow as students, teammates, and leaders. What you give directly shapes their experience at Willamette and the values they carry forward.
Simply put, your generosity makes their success possible.
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Be the Hero for Bearcat Scholar-Athletes
Your Gift Creates Opportunity
When you support Bearcat Athletics, you invest directly in the scholar-athlete experience at Willamette University. Your commitment helps ensure student-athletes are supported academically, prepared competitively, and equipped to lead beyond campus.
Because of you, Bearcat scholar-athletes benefit from:
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Travel support that allows them to compete throughout the Northwest Conference
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Equipment, uniforms, and training resources that promote health, safety, and performance
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Program resources that nurture academic success, leadership development, and personal growth
Your support sends a clear message to student-athletes that their hard work matters and that you believe in their potential.
Bearcat Athletic Annual Fund
Gifts to the Bearcat Athletic Annual Fund enable Athletics to respond to the most urgent and meaningful needs across all teams and facilities. Your support helps fund team travel, equipment, uniforms, facilities maintenance and upgrades, and day-to-day program needs, ensuring scholar-athletes have what they need to succeed academically and athletically.
When you give to the Bearcat Athletic Annual Fund, you strengthen every program and help sustain excellence throughout Bearcat Athletics.
Designated Team Support
Some donors choose to support a specific team, whether it is a sport that shaped their experience, one their student currently competes in, or a program in which a friend or loved one participates. When you designate your gift to a particular team, you help address that program’s unique needs while strengthening the future of Bearcat Athletics as a whole.
Ways to Give
You have several ways to support Bearcat scholar-athletes at Willamette University:
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Gifts by check or credit card
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Gifts of stock or mutual funds
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Donor-advised funds
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Planned gifts and gifts in honor or memory of someone special
You may learn more here. If you would like to talk through the giving option that best aligns with your goals, we are here to help.
Contact us at advancement-info@willamette.edu or 503-370-6340.
Your Impact Endures
Bearcat Athletics thrives because of alumni, parents, families, and friends who choose to invest in scholar-athletes and believe in the lasting value of a Willamette education. Through your support, scholar-athletes are prepared not only to compete, but to lead with integrity, purpose, and pride.
Give today.
Champion Bearcat scholar-athletes.
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