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THE POWER OF Beneficence

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Excellence

Ball State Athletics is thriving. The Cardinals have claimed 9 conference championships while making 19 post-season appearances during the past two years, and our 450 student-athletes are setting unprecedented marks in the classroom as two out of the last three years Ball State Athletics has won the MAC Institutional Academic Achievement Award representing the top department for academic excellence in the league.

We expect the best from our student-athletes in competition, in the classroom, and in the community. In return, we promise to provide them with the support they need to win, to perform academically, and to become lifelong leaders.

Supporting the Athletics Department through Our Call to Beneficence will advance our student-athletes' success in competition and in the classroom. Please join us in this opportunity to invest, impact, and inspire. Let’s do this, together, United in Flight. Onward!

For more information and to speak with someone directly about how you can impact Ball State Athletics through the campaign, please contact Austin Biggers, Director of Development for athletics at austin.biggers@bsu.edu or call 765-757-9800.

YOU HAVE THE POWER To Change Lives

Building for the Future

"With the ability to practice more modern techniques and the use of state-of-the-art equipment, we will be able to provide different rehabilitation methods to help our athletes heal faster and return to competition. This will be huge for us."

Shawn Comer, MS '92 referring to the Eric J. Foss Championship Performance Center.

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"Ball State Athletics significantly contributes to the vibrancy of the University community and its positive impact on Muncie and East Central Indiana. The outcomes from Our Call to Beneficence will propel our student-athletes to unprecedented levels of academic and competitive excellence and will support our mission to develop leaders and winners. Thank you to our devoted alumni, faithful friends, and dedicated fans who choose to answer Our Call to Beneficence to help us reach our ambitious goals through this campaign."

- Jeff Mitchell, Director of Athletics

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FUNDING Opportunities

CHAMPIONSHIP RESOURCES

Supporting the Athletic Director’s Excellence Fund and the Student-Athlete Success Fund provides additional resources enhancing the student-athlete experience across a variety of initiatives. Funds can be utilized for areas such as supporting student-athlete programming, improving game day experience, and bolstering sport specific and departmental operating budgets.

ERIC J. FOSS CHAMPIONSHIP PERFORMANCE CENTER

The Worthen Arena weight room serves more than 350 of our student-athletes, but is limited by space restrictions and equipment that is inadequate to properly develop our student-athletes. We are looking to advance Ball State Athletics through building a state-of-the-art weight room facility and nutrition center to support our teams.

This facility will not only develop current student-athletes’ physical capacity and advance their competitive success, but also aid with recruiting prospects who often get picked up by conference rivals purely based on available facility support. This training facility will be a difference maker and give us an edge against our competitors.

For more information and to speak with someone directly about how you can impact Ball State Athletics through the campaign, please contact Austin Biggers, Director of Development for Athletics, at austin.biggers@bsu.edu or call 765-757-9800.

450+

Student-athletes play on 12 women’s teams and seven men’s teams.

78.9%

Of student-athletes hold over a 3.0 GPA.

91%

2022-23 Graduation success rate for student-athletes. Highest in program history.

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