Today, on National Girls & Women's in Sports Day, Wake Forest Athletics is excited to announce a $100 million initiative to further transform opportunities for female student-athletes. Today's news follows the tremendous momentum from the celebration of 50 Years of Women's Athletics during the 2021-22 academic year as that fiscal year saw nearly 800 donors commit over $4.1 million toward women's athletics initiatives. That tally included 20 new scholarships in support of women student-athletes.
Ignited by the celebration, Wake Forest extended the effort and during the 2022-23 academic year Athletics raised $21 million - a nearly 375% increase in support in one year.
This fundraising effort will provide centralized marketing messages that highlights the ongoing philanthropic efforts creating a
World Class Student-Athlete experience at Wake Forest, such as telling stories of trailblazers who came before them and the indelible mark those individuals would like to leave behind them. With that, current student-athletes will learn and share how they reached current levels of success and whose wake they followed behind to reach that feat. Past student-athletes will look back at the wake that has followed them as they share how their experience as a Demon Deacon had an impact on their career trajectory.
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Also, the
In Her Wake initiative will further enhance scholarship support; create new opportunities in personal, leadership and career development; and provide strategic investments in areas that create a competitive advantage for individual sport programs. Supporters will also be encouraged to consider the legacy they leave to others who follow in their wake by exploring
Forever Deacs endowments that make permanent the impact of their contributions on generations of student-athletes to come.
