The Blue & Gold Women’s
Varsity Endowment Fund

These women are passionate, indispensable members of university life. They work hard and represent UBC boldly on and off the field. They often go on to be leaders in their communities, using the skills they have gained balancing athletics and academics long after graduation.

UBC Athletics has made raising funds for women varsity athletes a priority. For too long, these talented young women have not received the same level of financial support as their counterparts on men’s teams. Women’s varsity sports are not less important, but they are traditionally underfunded and, in some cases, don’t have the longstanding history of our men’s varsity teams.

Currently, scholarships for women’s sports receive only 39% of the total funds available from endowments and fundraising, despite making up 13 of UBC’s 26 varsity teams. With your help, we can start closing the gap and creating gender parity for our athletes.

Your support for the Blue & Gold Women’s Varsity Endowment Fund will help close the funding gap between the men’s and women’s Thunderbird teams and help to ensure any woman athlete with the ambition and talent to be called a Thunderbird has the opportunity to pursue their sport. Funds raised through this initiative are evenly distributed across our 13 women’s varsity teams.

Please empower a woman varsity athlete today by making a gift to the Blue & Gold Women’s Varsity Endowment Fund.